The Slog

In many ways this has been the summer of slog. This morning I read an interesting op-ed in The Guardian about political slog and health care reform:

It isn't fun. It isn't something Will.i.am is going to make a clever and moving video about, and it offers precious few moments for YouTube. It takes years, which is a bummer, in a political culture that measures success and failure by the hour. The end of euphoria should lead not to disillusionment, but to seriousness of purpose.

Then there is the personal slog. In all of this slogging, it's difficult to know what is working and to keep sight of purpose. I am always tacking against forces beyond my control, sometimes fighting them, sometimes riding them. Wisdom does not eliminate the desire for clear, straight signs of progress. Sometimes, that desire is good for me. Sometimes, if something ain't working, it ain't working.