What do you do when everything you write ends up in the do-not-post pile? Because you don't know enough about some topic, without painstaking extra research you don't have the time or inclination for, or because you realize that what you have to say is neither novel nor interesting? That's what happened with my post about the Supremes debating the Defense of Marriage Act. Other people have already said everything much better and my long post was just that. Long.
I have other such posts. One on the concept of rape culture deserves to be resuscitated but my ideas are still stewing (slowly) on that. Still, sometimes I look at my old drafts which never got posted and I cannot tell why I did not post them. They are as bad or as good as the things that passed the sieve.
None of this probably has much wider relevance. But this is my blog and I can spread my frustrations over it like bitter icing on a cake. Have some!
On the other hand, the topic ties with our feelings of self-confidence. My self-confidence veers from one extreme to the other, though I'm slowly leash-training it and teaching it to sit and stay. Setting the bar too high is pointless, given the vast amounts of mediocre words on the Internet. But making more mediocre words is probably not the best use of time. Not everything that I blurt out is divine.
So have a nice picture instead.
