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WHO Am I Kidding? A PeaceBang Update
July 16, 2008 on 2:07 pm | In Miscellany |Darlingest darlings,
PeaceBang is just plain drowning in writing projects that aren’t getting off the ground AT ALL. The fact is, I’m working on my Doctor of Ministry degree and that has to take priority over all else. The summer is slipping away and is actually quite full of writing and research responsibilities for my D.Min., so the BTFM book proposal that I had thought would just pop into being isn’t going to happen. Nor is any blogging on BTFM for awhile because quite frankly, haven’t I said it all, or most of it?
I love talking with you, presiding over the raucous cacophony of opinion we get going on here, exhorting you to be your most beautiful, vibrant selves, and damning the Crocs on your beloved feet (hey, I’m wearing them around, too, let’s be honest — there’s nothing better for walking the dog and doing quick, anonymous errands in towns far afield of my own). But right now, please understand that while I DO CARE, I cannot advise you individually by e-mail as I have been wont to do for the past two years. Nor am I blogging on ministerial image right now because switching into BTFM gear takes a kind of energy that God isn’t giving me right now. I am, however, blogging as usual at www.peacebang.com and welcome your visits there. I know, it’s just not as much fun, but it’s where I’m at.
Love to you, my pigeons. Now go and by lovely and fierce for the kingdom of God.
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Our own beloved dove,
Seems to me you’re in need of practicing what you preach–give yourself a needed break. We’re fine. If we need guidance, you have given us sage wisdom and we can look in the archives. We love you. Rest!
Comment by lela — July 21, 2008 #
You sound like me. A lot like me. This is why it took me 5 years to get my dissertation done.
What worked for me? Hitting rock bottom (time was running out!).
There is a great site run by Ben Dean called the ABD Survival Guide (http://www.abdsurvivalguide.com/). He’s a life coach and has some sage advice. I highly recommend it! [Thanks, I’ll look it up! So far I’m not due to start writing until the fall, but I expect a very busy fall and I don’t want my first drafting to run into my sabbatical which starts in January. Since I tend to speed through things, I’d like to do this at a normal pace. I don’t want to take five years, though!!
xxoo PB]
Comment by eddoc — July 22, 2008 #
Be sure that if it’s the time’s set aside for rest on your calendar, go ahead and cut yourself some slack. It’s July. Take it easy.
And congratulate yourself for what you do. A list of things to check off or fill in, hour by hour and day by day, rather than a shining vision of completed perfect product.
And on your list, it helps to include what you might do in future with little snippets you have to cut out now. Digression cuts the impact of this product, but roads not taken do not have to be erased. Having lived another decade and a half beyond your own years, I have discovered that it is finally time to pull some of them out and get them finished, too!
And congratulations on the decision to set this BTFM project aside. Your thesis will last longer than any of our beauties or fashion fauxes pas.
Comment by Revelz — July 26, 2008 #
I will look up the ABD site too; will be working on my prospectus in the fall!
But even though you’re not blogging right now, PB, I just wanted to share a brief clergy shirt pet peeve: I can accept that UU and UCC clergy who never wear clergy shirts at their churches wear them in public, to rallies etc. It’s difficult, but I can accept it. What I cannot accept, however, is said UU and UCC clergy wearing PURPLE clergy shirts. Purple shirts are for bishops and bishops only, my non-liturgical tradition friends. And you look silly to all your Catholic and Episcopal colleagues wearing them if you don’t have a miter to go with the ensemble.
There, I’ve said it. I feel much better now.
Comment by Mrs. Philocrites — July 30, 2008 #