So, here we are, not quite two weeks into the New Year; a good time to take a moment and see how all those resolutions and goals are going. I’m still managing to do okay with mine. I’ve been getting up earlier, usually around five, but sometimes a little later, and try to spend the first hour of my day in various devotions and meditations. I’ve gotten the Digg Reader set up nicely to let me know when there are new posts on various blogs, and I’ve subscribed to others via email.

I’m also using Digg to track other blogs, mostly from a long time ago. I’m not keeping up with all the blogs as much as I would like, but I’m doing okay.

I’ve been using Workflowy to try and keep track of what I’m doing, and what I want to get done. Over the past two weeks, I’ve changed the way I’m using it a little, but it is going well. My social media activity isn’t as much as I’m shooting for, but Workflowy is keeping me focused on it.

This evening, I closed down a bunch of tab, and saved information about them in Workflowy. Here are some of my thoughts about how they tie together. During my morning mediations, I read Choices we make in telling personal news of a private nature. Our public Vs. Private lives. It is something I struggle with as an online writer, how public can I appropriately be? As a comment, I wrote,

I really appreciate your thoughts about the public and the private. I am thinking a lot about this right now as I explore becoming a priest. God called me privately, as I sat in a public gathering. I am seeking to balance bearing witness and letting my light shine with the needs of those around me for their privacy.

In Water Daily, Kate wrote

"We may not be turning water into wine, but we can transform the ordinary into the sacred just by bringing Jesus along with us and letting his Spirit kick things up a notch. You never know what might happen."

Another post pointed me to Dorotheus of Gaza whom I hope to spend more time reading about.

Three articles concerning the gathering of Anglican church leaders caught my attention

• Church split over gays not a disaster, says Welby: Archbishop makes comments ahead of meeting of senior bishops to attempt to secure a compromise
• Primates’ Dilemma from a Pittsburgh Girl’s Perspective
• Anglican summit: Traditionalists' anger over Justin Welby’s federal plan

Meanwhile, I’m looking at MOOC MOOC: INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN, CLEARING CONFUSION BETWEEN SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT and reading Slow Church, which I’ll discuss online.

We’ll see how much time I’ll have to explore some of these. I will miss the State of the Union speech tonight. After a long day at work, I’m too tired for that. I also hope to get a new poem that has been brewing in my head written down soon, but that, too, will have to wait.