Almost done

In the meantime, another quote from The Dance of the Dissident Daughter. I am damming up tributaries now just as hard as I can. I have half an actual blog entry written, but haven’t had time to finish it. Should be soon . . . maybe while my students are taking their first exam.

For me it is often a lack of focus, allowing my energy to run out in dozens of directions—many of them silly tributaries of distraction—rather than setting priorities and funneling my energy toward the project at hand. Part of women’s genius lies in our ability to make multiple commitments, to do many tasks, and to live with ambiguity and multiplicity. It’s true that power can come from the flexibility of doing many things, but sometimes that multiplicity, the moving from one thing to another, is overdone and we diffuse our power. There are times it is best to dam up the tributaries and send the energy thundering in just one direction. All great things are launched on big rivers. (208-209)