Hallelujah!

“He said, ‘I like this song you wrote called Hallelujah.’ In fact, he started doing it in concert. He said, ‘How long did that take you to write?’ And I said, ‘Oh, the best part of two years.’ He said, ‘Two years?’ Kinda shocked. And then we started talking about a song of his called I And I from Infidels. I said, ‘How long did you take to write that?’ He said, ‘Oh, 15 minutes.’ I almost fell off my chair. Bob just laughed.”

Leonard Cohen (‘Bob’ is Bob Dylan.)

It took me a year to write this post.

Wait, that’s not true.

It took me a year to be ready to write this post – to get a feel for what I wanted this place to be, to build the blog around it (three times), to navigate around my stuff, and to allow for all the shifts that happened in my work in 2009.

Once I was ready, writing the first post took no time at all.

I’m a percolator. An unfolder. That’s just how I roll.

And while the ideas sometimes take a while to get to ready, the thing that takes the longest is the resistance. Resisting the time it takes. Resisting the process. Resisting the waiting.

Part of me wants to push, push, push. Get this thing done, already! I should be blogging! Yesterday!

But things take as long as they take.

And the more I trust that the thing will reveal itself in good time, the sooner it does.

I love how that works.

So here it is, the shiny new blog that took year but not really.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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