Wound too tight

By on October 28, 2009.
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Stress OutGetting more upset lately: Too tense in situations that require calm, too easily angered when confronted and too disposed to lose control.

Maybe the stress comes from being too close to things. Maybe it stems from caring too much about what happens around us. Maybe it’s just frustration with the hidden agendas that seem to be so much a part of life nowadays.

Maybe. Not sure.

Maybe it’s exhaustion. Maybe it’s a case of just being wound too tight right now. Maybe a break is required. Maybe a vacation is in order. Maybe all that’s needed is a good night’s sleep.

Maybe.

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6 Responses to Wound too tight

  1. Randall A. Wells October 29, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    For Halloween I’m going as an Amish businessman.

  2. Nancy October 29, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    And maybe it’s a combination of all of the above…Too many disappointments,too little sleep, too many expectations, too little sleep and not enough time for you to have space and quiet to process all this and find the next opportunity. You’re grieving. Sometimes the field just has to lie fallow before the next crop can poke its shoots above ground. Maybe a long, combination retreat/vacation is just what’s needed. A little time, a lot of space…or is it the other way around.

    Anyway, I’m pulling for you.

  3. Angie October 29, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    Take care of yourself Doug!!

  4. Bob October 31, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    Hope you’ve been able to unwind by shooting bear and politicians… (Great shots, by the way.)

    If only Floyd would pick up the Halloween tradition that’s being challenged in Boulder, Colo.

    (Not that I’d want you to, uh, participate in the event… just unwind further by taking carefully tasteful pictures… and having a good laugh.)

  5. Carl Nemo November 1, 2009 at 4:54 am

    Only busy saints and true villains forsake activities which give them pleasure. If you regard yourself as neither, enjoy the world as your own. … Erasmus~16th Century humanist and Catholic theologian

     

    Carl Nemo **==

     

  6. Anne November 1, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Doug,

    Grief is such a strange, but seemingly necessary, evil. Sometimes, its depth results from an accumulation of events. It’s not a cliche to say it takes time to recover. It is also a very personal experience. You know what we have gone through this year. Friends do help, even if all they can do is listen. We’re here. Reach out to us, Doug.