The Return of the Native

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday as I sat watching Blue's Clues with my sick children. A little bar of soap in a paper boat was singing for the cartoon neighborhood on a makeshift stage (which I, the viewer, helped build using my clever intuition for appropriate materials). As he sang he swayed back and forth, sliding ever so slightly from side to side in his own lather. This foolishness rather quickly got the best of him, and he tumbled onto his side unable to stand up again. He might as well have been in a pitcher plant, for all his efforts to right himself failed embarrassingly. The onlookers could only giggle.

"Don't give up, just go on," resonated from back stage as his friends encouraged him in musical form to keep trying. And he did. He struggled once more to portrait orientation and finished his song to the delight of the audience and the satisfied home viewer.

The lesson: When blogging seems like an unfulfilling chore, don't give up, just blog on.

posted by chopper @ 8:33 PM | 3 comments