A Blank Page . . . Or Not

A blank page can be intimidating. So can a blank blog. Maybe they’re no different than a blank day—a day of no plans, no prospects, no expectations, and no deadlines.

Nature abhors a vacuum, though, and so do we. We fill time with busy-ness and stuff. Some of it matters to us or to others, and some of it is like tissue paper in rain. Some of it looks like all kinds of everything from the outside, but amounts to nothing inside. Other stuff looks like not much at all on the outside, but is all...