Deep & Intellectual & Foggy

...with so much happening around the world.

Wow.

I feel a deep, intellectual fog took me. Or something like that.

These days, speaking feels more natural. I noticed how demanding it is to write because there is so much on my mind. I am spending time with literature, research, and audio recordings of some of the finest orators on this planet.

So when I sit down, like I am now, with the keyboard… The music doesn’t come out.

And writing requires so much maintenance.

Editing, grammar, layout, design, vulnerability, the research. All of it.

Nonetheless, I would sit down to write.. Sometimes a few words or a title would come out. Occasionally, I’d get through a few paragraphs, and sometimes I would write out the entire post.

Still, I couldn’t motivate myself to hit send.

So much has been on my mind, and I feel as though I could write 50,000 words. And no one wants that… yet.

The conversation around me sounds a lot like this:

• War

• Sanctions

• Oil & Energy

• The U.S. Economy

• Global Economy

• Donald Trump

• Changing World Order

• Inflation

• Central Banking

• Digital Currency & Bitcoin

• TONS OF POLITICAL RHETORIC.

• TOO MUCH NEWS (print & digital journalism)

And who knows what’s going on anyway.

So I stepped away from writing. I did what came more naturally to me, which is speaking. There was too much for me to process and not enough room to write simultaneously.

I haven’t posted since the early days of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

For the moment, I am here. I’ll write again soon.

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