FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK
by Jay Webster
Hello, Friends. It’s good to see so many of your faces in the reading audience again this month. So, how are things? You can be honest. It feels like a lot of us are on the struggle bus right now. There are obviously plenty of reasons, but for many there’s a gray they can’t quite put their finger on. I’m right there with you.
And many of the things that used to numb that struggle don’t seem to be helping as much anymore. Most of my creative pursuits have run aground on Frustration Island. I used to enjoy home projects, now they just feel like a dogged “to-do list.” I’ve lost interest in many of the things that used to entertain me. And over the last several months I’ve been suffering from spiritual neuropathy, where I feel disconnected even from the divine (despite my best efforts).
I know. I would be surprised if I were you, too. I mean, take the overwhelming success of this I mean, take the overwhelming success of this monthly monthly column alone and you column alone and you would think I had the world on a would think I had the world on a string, but I struggle sometimes. I mean not like you… string, but I struggle sometimes. I but I struggle. mean, not like you … but I struggle. 50
bmonthly | AUGUST 2021
“So what to do with the rest of today’s afternoon?” Maybe this will help. In a rare moment of tranquility a couple of days ago,
