This is Blog 15 in my A-Z Blogseries:
Oimoi!
This alphabet challenge thing is messing with my brain…
After I wrote the blog on linguistics I remembered I had wanted to write about Louis CK.
And then when I was writing about Natalia Lafourcade for the letter N, I realized the blog I was writing was actually an ode to her album Musas, which would have made it more appropriate for one letter earlier…
And then, after I had published that blog I realized I totally wanted to dedicate a blog to the Notre Dame… But by then the N was already taken…
Why does it work that way??
So then I decided I would just make up a word (Pyromania) to talk about this Notre Dame situation…
But I still had to do the letter O right, before I could move on to P. So much pressure (and so little result)! Oimoi!
I already started writing my hotheaded pyro-blog, describing my annoyance with the ginormous disproportionate donations that were being promised by billionaire companies and individuals, well before the fire was even under control.
My annoyance spread out into religious matters, global inequality and humanity’s messed up priorities.
Luckily, my thoughts turned out to be quite mainstream. In the following days, as I heard more people echoing the same thoughts I had been having, my anger subsided.
While I was walking home just now I decided I would chuck the angry blogpost I had started to write, straight into the trash…
…and that’s when I received a message from a friend (who had noticed I had been struggling with my O) reminding me that the cathedral’s name actually translates to “Our Lady”…
Is this karma at work?
Epiphany 