My original intent of expressing gratitude in blogs presents a problem and that problem is that the format constricts sentence variety. It becomes a simplistic subject, linking verb and predicate adjective or preposition. Stylistic constraint at its worst which should be something for which I am grateful. On the other hand, I might revert to enumeration and list those things for which I am grateful with numerbers. Not much room for creativity, humor or serious reflection.
Precision. One other difficulty is verb selection. One may be grateful for silence, health, a spouse, a life style. Tiresome. Happy.. Now I might employ that. I am happy to be retired but happy is too weak a verb to express my gratitude. Ecstatic comes much closer to my state of being. Alas I must conclude that a gratitude blog gives small room for the intent of my original blog. Quite honestly several of my original blogs were quite good, almost brilliant, funny and journalistic. It would be a shame to deviate from my original program. I am left with the conclusion that I must abandoned this blog of gratitude and return to my former intent. Never fear dear reader (and there is only one) I shall return.
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