What I'm Thinking About

There are a lot of things, and I'm looking forward to sitting down this weekend and telling you about them as I think them through. 

1) I'm thinking about books.  I want to tell you how the Year of Planned Reading turned out and what I think of my Kindle and what I still don't really understand about reading.  I guess I am realizing that I'm 37 years old and I read a whole lot and I still don't really know how or why. 

2) I'm thinking about Being Good.  I worry a lot that I'm not Good Enough and that I'm not Doing Good Things.  I think I do the things I do well, or some of them anyway, and I think the things I do are worth doing, or mostly, but I still feel like there are too many Good Things that I should be doing that I'm not.  I'll try to write about this more cogently. 

3) I'm still thinking a lot about Fun, and what it looks like for me.  I'm thinking a little bit about Friendship, and what that looks like, too.  

4) I think, by accident, I'm thinking a little bit about God, but I don't know how to talk about that, so I might pretend I'm not thinking about it.  If I believed in God it would give me a vocabulary for some things I've been thinking about lately.  So sometimes I think that would be a good trade.  

Comments

[Thelonious_Nick]

How to Be Good, by Nick Hornby. Hits two things on your list. Kind of about just how much you should do to really be a good person. Pretty funny too.

[Scheherazade]

I've read it twice, and it's a favorite. Thanks for thinking of me, though.

[PG]

"If I believed in God it would give me a vocabulary for some things I've been thinking about lately."

I think it's possible to use that vocabulary without believing in God and without being disrespectful to those who do. I try to, anyway. We live in a pretty God-suffused culture, so it's difficult for us to speak about some things without using that language.