Amazingly the “fugue” approach does seem to be working. I keep wanting to impose a schedule, but I just keep floating along and things seem to be getting done. I am relaxing into a new rhythm and I like it.

Oh, Walt, I love what you have to say here. I hope everyone reads your comment.

Now that I look up the definition of polyrhythm (the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition), I think that’s a better description. There’s the rhythm of writing and the rhythm of social media coming up against the ever-changing family rhythms. It’s so true that the rhythms shift and vary as our different obligations and family responsibilities do.

I appreciate in particular your point about there being a time to be on the web and then a time to retreat and digest. Also your point about looking at the larger ebb and flow, which I didn’t even mention.

Thanks for adding and enlarging this conversation. So much to think about. And lovely to think of it all as creating rhythms within a life…

Waggledance, one day I would love to know how you came up with that name. I get such a picture in my mind when I think of it. Wow, too much time–I never thought that that might be the same as too little, but actually I can see how there would be nothing to hang on to, no anchors to throw out, no hurry, no need to do anything now. I do think Journal of Solitude would mean something to you.

Thank you, Cynthia. That is beautiful.

A summer fugue–that’s lovely, Lisa.

Jennifer, in that Annie Dillard quote out of which I pulled the name for the blog, she writes, “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.”

Linda, that’s what I’m doing–listening for a different rhythm.