I’m late again (sorry, in case you’ve been checking). I started a column last week, but then I was approached by a reader (I think it was a reader—or maybe it was just someone who was getting tired of hearing me whine around about not finding time to write). It does happen. I have a regular job, you know, and it sometime gets in the way (whine).

Anyway, in a surprising momentary flash of interest, this reader suggested I attempt to write about — are you ready for this? — perspectives. I asked for a definition to start with. I looked it up in the dictionary just to make sure I knew what it meant. I did, but not exactly as simply and clear as I should’ve until it got to the part about being “a view, an outlook, or comparisons of views”. 

Whew! I can do that, I thought. I have lots of opinions, and most of them are different. That’s not exactly how the dictionary described the word, but then, as I’ve said, my opinions vary.

So, in self-defense I reminded my (possibly budding antagonistic) reader that my columns were already leaning in that direction some of the time, but I would attempt to bend them a little further — whatever was needed… if it would make them better.

So, now, instead of just skirting the surface of subjects, hinting at the possibility of differences being present, I would identify them more clearly, as more than just ideas falling within my topics of humor and human interest (which I had to agree were and are pretty open-ended).

As a beginning I decided to ask my suspected pesky reader what they would want to read about in my columns.

My reader eagerly contributed that they would like to see some alternative-type ideas aimed towards boosting development and/or provision of variety interests for persons who need and/or desire active involvement in today’s changing environment.

Okayyyyy… not exactly my genre of expertise. I was beginning to suspect, again, that I was not in the right classroom. Psychiatry application is a bit deep for an ordinary person’s approach. But, hey (!) it’s worth a shot. I’ll see where it goes.

Oh, and next time I will get back to my originally scheduled column, I think…