Less Traveled...A Little More Worn...

I am sorry for my absence...

I have been reading books that make me tired. Have you ever read a book like that? See, my style of reading is essentially undisciplined, but not as you might expect. When I read a book, I do nothing else. I open to page one and do not put it down until I have read the last page. It is much to my consternation that I am interrupted by such menial tasks such as eating, going to the bathroom or sleeping. I have found that I am able to do the first two while reading with some success, but success in the latter still eludes me...

Regardless, I am reading M. Scott Peck's "The Road Less Traveled". It is good...and exhausting. I find myself able to read for about an hour and then I stumble to my bed and sleep for two hours, wake up and pick the book back up. It is as if my mind is working so hard that it cannot sustain any other activity but thinking and then...sleep mode.

It is not as though he is a difficult writer - in fact, I would say he is an excellent writer. It is the content - the weight of it - that exhausts me. But, I would recommend it to you. I don't agree with everything (but when have I ever?), but he has wonderful discussions on love and truth and discipline.

So forgive my absence. I am exhausted!

But just for the record, I miss you too!!!

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 7/12/2004 07:35:00 PM