Kathy asks regarding the “Is Love Simple Blog,” Why not write about what you find stupefying about the thread? What did you find so surprising?”

“Did you feel aggravated at the people who thought Love was simple? Did you feel compassion for those who felt that they have been robbed of Love’s happiness in this Life? Did you agree with bits and pieces of many of the contributors?”

Kathy, like I said, I’ve not been able to parse the comments. I am overwhelmed with the data and consequently I have nothing to say. I’ll tell you something about me. I am ready to go to court at all times!! ::smiles::

See, when I write something it needs to be real to me, and defensible. It needs to be well thought out. I need to thoroughly understand what I am saying and believe it! This does not mean I have to be right. In fact, it may surprise you I don’t have that standard for myself at all.

For example, I put advice up here 6 days a week. And I don’t think I need to be right, all the time, every single time. How would that be possible? I am human being. I only need to be trying hard to do my very, very best and this standard, I do maintain.

So I think I’m pretty good at this, but every once in a while I am going to miss by mile! And while I’m not proud when it happens, I think it’s all right. “That ElsaElsa sure fucked up her column today!” ::smiles:: Now and then, this is going to occur.

And when it does, I can apologize. I am happy to cop to any error in judgment. But I want to be able to explain. “Yes, I was wrong, but I was thinking this and this and this and then obviously took a wrong turn…” See, that’s human. I am a well-meaning human being. But what I can’t do is put bullshit up here. And what I am in real life, is one of the most “organic” people you could ever imagine. Which means that feelings and ideas emerge when and if they do. And regarding the comments on the love blog, there is simply nobody home!

So you see I can’t address this. And I can’t even explain why I can’t address it outside of the explanation I just offered. I can’t tell you why I can’t assimilate the comments and come up with something to say, I mean. And that’s why I asked what other people thought. Because it’s interesting to me! And because we hear what I think all the time on this blog!!

So I hope this helps. This is why I don’t write “on demand”. This is why I answer questions not necessarily in the order received, but in an order that makes sense to me and feels right. It’s because I am not a machine.

And this is also why this blog reads the way it does. It’s because everything I post here is real to my core.