Say what you need to say

So, if anyone happened to check in on this blog in the last few months, you would know that I haven't written anything. I have hesitated because I haven't thought that I had anything worthy of publishing into cyberspace. But I have to believe that if anyone cares to check in, then they must think whatever I have to say is worth their time. 

One of my pet peeves is when anyone begins a talk or speaking assignment in an apologetic or self-debasing manner. I can't count the number of times I have heard someone start by saying that he or she left it until the last minute or that they weren't experts on the subject or that it wasn't likely to be a very good talk, etc. To me, that is like giving the listening audience permission to just tune out and not pay attention to one thing you say. If I didn't want to listen to that person or what they had to say, I think I would just stay home. Prepared or not, expert or not--just do your best and let me take from it what I will. Don't tell me how to think about it before you even give it to me!

So, that will be the mission statement for my blog. I will continue to believe that if you actually come to visit my site, whatever I have to say is of interest--even if it is only of very slight interest. So be prepared to get to know my life.

Listen to John Mayer's "Say What You Need to Say"

Take all of your wasted honor

Every little past frustration

Take all of your so-called problems

Better put ‘em in quotations 

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say 

Walking like a one man army

Fighting with the shadows in your head

Living out the same old moment

Knowing you'd be better off instead

If you could only 

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say 

Have no fear for giving in

Have no fear for giving over

You better know that in the end

It's better to say too much

Than never to say what you need to say 

Even if your hands are shaking

And your faith is broken

Even as your eyes are closing

Do it with a heart wide open 

Wide 

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say