Be a Lame Duck

It's been a short time since my last post and frankly, it has not been unintentional.

This particular post is not about some great social injustice, some administrative hooplah, some corporate scandal, or some spiritual awakening. It's about being a lame duck.

The coming legislative session is sure to be rife with, well nothing. Much will happen in the news in the way of punditry, commentary, empty threats, and faux ultimatums as the Republicans take their new seats and Democrats check theirs for mousetraps. However, at the end of the day, most of these recently ousted men and women will do what most of us do when we know of our impending termination: nothing.

The question is, what do we do? Politics is a daily event, an unavoidable component of our lives. While the collective legislative mechanism of our country sits on its ass and politiks about nothing in particular, how are we affected?

Well, from my perspective, the lame duck session is an important one. We now have the opportunity to do what we please, recharge, collect our thoughts and prepare for the ensuing fight. What's sure to follow the lame duck session is a tidal wave of distracting fights, frivolous arguments, and misdirection from the issues that really affect our world. It will be tense, it will be constant, and it will be taxing.

So I'm not telling you to sit out. I'm barely telling you to sit down. But instead, stand up, hit the books, relax and catch your breath, but remain on your toes. If you care about anything, know that any fight is worth the work, so do the work while your plate is empty.

Be a lame duck, just this once.