Lenten Lilting

I've taken on three tasks for Lent this year:

-- blog every day
-- actually go to church
-- fast from meat/animal products (except for fish)

The last one is the traditional Lenten fast - I figured if people have been doing it since the Middle Ages, I should give it a try.

The first one is by far the most challenging.

Last month I decided to wear only skirts and dresses to work. At first it was a pain, but an interesting thing happened after the month was over: I'm still wearing skirts nearly every day. In fact, this morning, I stared at the pants hanging in my closet and none of them appealed to me. The pendulum has effectively been swung.

My relationship with writing, especially in the public eye, is much more complicated than my wardrobe preferences, but I'm hoping there will prove to be some similarities. That's my hypothesis at least; we'll see what results the experiment yields. Frankly, I'm a little tired of only being able to write about the conflict and complexity. I'm swinging over to the simple side. And I am writing.