I’m not sure I’m ready to dive in to the maelstrom of political blogging today or any other day. What with this really being just a sophomore effort at blogging, I really had little intention of thrusting myself into such murky waters… But today’s news, like the news of so many recent days, provides fodder I find impossible to pass up. Particularly because it concerns a topic I’ve been wanting to cut into since my very first blogging inclinations.
So John Edwards had an affair. Sigh. It’s happened with high-profile figures so frequently these days, it seems almost ridiculous at this point to bring it up. There simply are those people, however, who deflate us, to varying degrees, with their shortcomings.
I came home intending to paint. I planned to leave my left brain checked at the door for a little while this evening before the weekend’s antics began. But of course, I had to google “how to prep a canvas for painting with acrylic” and so began a tangent which finds me on the couch blogging about politics. Even as I’m writing, I’m wishing I had feverishly grabbed the paints, set up the canvas and just gone for it, preparation be damned! What happened to the little girl who would have done exactly that without a moment’s hesitation? She’s still around, she just took a tentative turn tonight for some reason. So in my research, I got sidetracked and I circuitously found my way to a friend’s blog — actually he’s not a friend — we established that earlier this week. Or re-established it, I suppose. That’s a whole different blog. But his writing reminded me that today’s political palette was a colorful one — the First Family having to go through customs in Beijing, Bush sitting with Putin at the Opening Ceremonies on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Georgia, and while it seems to pale by comparison in all but the most titillating of senses, even Edwards’ affair is nevertheless worth noting.
So rather than blog about politics, I’ll steer the focus of the next few postings back to a topic which moved me to write from the outset: can you really want something when you already know you have it? I can’t say whether that was the struggle within the Edwards marriage, but I can say it’s the struggle for many of the rest of us, in and out of relationships, and in a larger sense, life.
More (much more) on that later. The ten-year old is calling and she wants to paint…
