Personal:

Too many inputs...

...to synthesize effectively.

What am I talking about?

I am trying to write several posts at once. One on the rejection by France of the proposed European Union Constitution (or Charter, or whatever you want to call it); another on reflections of my visit this weekend to Prague, the capital of (half) of a former Warsaw Pact nation; and another on some general trends I see both worldwide and in the United States that are reflections of things I see in history; not to mention the book reviews and historical articles I have read that show some other trends that are worth noting.

All of these are intermingled with photos I have taken in both Paris and Prague in a new format that has more information, but is more difficult to work with, during which I am listening to, being distracted by and inspired with, music I recently re-ripped into high quality MP3 files from my CD collection.

I have too many inputs to synthesize effectively according to the standards to which I hold myself.

I'm just a guy with a weblog, but I do my best to present something new and unique to the world, despite the tens of thousands of weblogs out there, the millions of books ever published with the billions upon billions of words in them, in a world where over six billion are alive today and even if I am tremendously successful, I can only hope to reach far less than 0.01% and influence the thinking of even fewer.

In the face of those numbers and percentages, it is easy to lose hope, but I strive on regardless of odds or lack of inspiration.

I have often used music or images or words and phrases I have encountered as a springboard into what I write about, but now I have too much.

Pity me? Nope...

Just be patient. I'm working on it.