When I started this blog back in November, all I wanted was user-friendly software for my website.
I was looking to replace FrontPage with something I could easily use when I wanted to add information to my site. It was the cyber equivalent of putting on a new shirt. What I ended up with was a whole new cyber wardrobe - and a whole new business.
In the doldrums of winter, I had lots of time to put a big push behind this. But now, as the days are getting longer, and my income doesn’t even begin to cover the expense I already laid out - I find myself reluctant to sign a deal committing me to marketing services.
This is another one of those metaphorical map situations.
I know very well there’s no way I’m coming in from the woods in June, August or October for a marketing meeting. But will I regret that decision in December, February and April?
I hiked a new series of unmarked trails today. There had been a brush fire less than two weeks ago. Even after yesterday’s rain, the stench of burned lakeside campsites hung in the air.
Simultaneously, the red maples are budding - dots of red, like an impressionist painting against a cloudless blue sky revealing all the signs of new life.
This is the first spring I’ve had actual free time. Normally, I’m swamped. But something about vanishing open space and leaders who consider sewage treatment plants and golf courses wetlands - and the realization that I am in control of my values, my choices and my time.
I have my eye on a woods site that, should I chose to spend time there, is not going to be easy to get in to - and I won’t rush to get out. Certainly not for meetings.