A Tribute to Empty Pages

An article by Don Quixote    3 Comments

There is an overwhelming feeling of unease when I’m in the presence of things left unfinished.

Unsettled.

Incomplete.

Undone.

I always wonder what happened?

What caused the interruption of this moment? Did some tragic event strike that left this partial moment in time frozen forever? Simply put, why isn’t this done yet.

As I have visited the pages of my own blog since May, I’ve seen blank entries starring me in the face. Blank. Empty. Devoid of those thoughts that I was once in a hurry to jot down. Where did the words go? What happened?

Apparent I haven’t been the only one asking those same questions. In a freak occurrence yesterday I received emails from 4 different people asking, “Hey, what’s up?”

I guess that was a little prodding by someone that perhaps I should take up the keyboard and flesh out some of the empty skeletons that are left floating around.

So an update on Michelle.

She had her follow up meeting with the neurologist just this past week. He told her that they have no idea what caused her seizure, and that most likely it was a freak one time thing caused by motion sickness, lack of sleep, low blood sugar. Chances are all of those caused her to pass out and it was the actual impact of her head on the floor that triggered it.

Sometime between then and now I got a new job at the University and now I have a sparkling title to go with; I’m the Director of Education Technology. So to quote Uncle Ben with great power comes great responsibility; which means most of my free time has been chewed up by countless hours of meetings about meeting to schedule meetings. It’s certainly a lot of work, but it’s grown me in a lot of ways.

When you’re an employee, your success is measured by the work that you do and your individual accomplishments. As a director, my success is measured by how shining my employees are and why my department accomplishes. I can no longer rely on my own strength, but I have to empower others to be successful. You also get to deal with a lot more crap. Politics, they’re not just in Washington.

So my life is pretty good. Tom Flammer’s got me back into the world of comic books (which I’m sure I’ll bother you more with later). I’m still playing board games, I’m still a T.V. junkie, but I haven’t made it out to the movies as much as I’d like.

We are still in our quest to find a church and I’m sure I’ll have more to say about that later as well.

As a look back over the empty pages in this blog they are a tribute to another period in my life; a time when all hell broke loose on every front, and some how I’ve slipped through to the other side. While I cannot promise that I’ll daily chronicle my life as I have in the past, but I’ll do my best to stop in more often, not so much for you, but for me, so that I can look back on my steps and see the places I’ve been and maybe, just maybe get a glimpse of where I might be going.