Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

To write is to be misunderstood. Gosh, not very optimistic but it is realistic. We should constantly ask, “Did my words make sense?”

“Never mind what it says, we know what we mean,” said an optimist about something we were reading.

Yes, we did know what it meant. We read it half-a-dozen times and discussed it more. It would have been nice if we only had to read it once and not discuss it. Gosh. You can’t have everything, so just do the work and move on.

How about we simply do better? Instead of having 50 persons each read it half-a-dozen times and discuss it for an hour, I’ll write it half-a-dozen times by myself so that the 50 other folks only have to read it once. That would save us 51 folks a lot of time and angst.

Perhaps I am too optimistic. Perhaps my concern about not wasting money is silly. It seems, however, that we could do better. Let’s try.