Too Many Emails In My Inbox

Wouldn’t call myself a Deadhead by any stretch of the imagination but they have more than a few songs I appreciate so here I sit writing to Franklin’s Tower.

Been fighting the monstrous numbers of emails that swarm my inbox and carefully evaluating which newsletters are important enough to continue to subscribe to and which aren’t.

Preparing to send a note and or telephone call to a few people who think it is 2001 and that forwarding every email they receive makes sense.

They never ask if I have read them or they’d know I click delete more often than read because I don’t have the time or mental bandwidth for their nonsense.

I have been tempted to ask them if they ever wonder if I subscribe/read some of the same publications and that I have already seen what they send.

Alternatively I have thought about forwarding four or five emails to them daily just to see if they even read what they send.

Is that a passive aggressive response?

Yes it is but there is some curiosity connected to it because part of me is certain they don’t ever read all they come across.

Unfriended and Blocked

Got unfriended and blocked more than a few times during the past six years or so and sometimes laugh at it all because it sounds silly to me.

Some let me go for updating too often and some let me go for calling out bad behavior and immoral beliefs.

I have never been shy about unfriending and blocking as seemed necessary either but what makes me shake my head sometimes is how people describe it.

Maybe it is an age thing, but I don’t place much weight in the actions. Maybe because it is rare that I was bothered by someone cutting me loose and I figured if I really wanted access to them I could get it.

I can accept political differences but there are moral differences that are too large for me to be interested in maintaining contact so in those cases I never looked back.

Nor did I wonder what I did if they blocked me. I kept walking and that is ok.

Our obligation is to work on building the world we want to live in and yes, I know that people I disagree with may feel that way too.

Doesn’t mean I have to give their word and their beliefs any credence. The Nazis thought they were good people. Slavers thought they were good people.

Not every ideology is moral, no matter what they say or do.

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I was particularly pleased with this post and how it came out. It has given me all sorts of ideas for follow up content.

Given that I have more time to myself for a while I am going to play around with some of those and see what I can do with them.

Part of the joy of it all comes from being able to mull things over and consider opportunities from wherever I am.

I got my beard trimmed today and when my barber put that warm towel across my face I had one idea that was particularly intriguing.

It is tied to a Johnny Cash thing I had going for a while and I got so into it I think I started humming in the chair while I thought about how to put the puzzle pieces together.