Getting back to GTD and the desire to be visibly productive all the time

In spite of the many, many, many things happening in my life, I feel that I've still managed to be productive and mostly focused. That's not to say that I don't feel a teensy bit off-balance. OK, sometimes way off balance.

Last year, I found the Getting Things Done system very helpful in getting me on track. I will focus some hours on getting my GTD system back on track. Since I'm often using how much of sustance I can write publicly as a measure of productivity, I'm loathe to work too much on activities whose outcomes are invisible or should be made invisible to the public. That's so funny, since so many good things in life are private. At any rate, I might not be producing much stuff here today. Trust me, though: I'll be busy and productive.

Returning Milosz to Jim

Jim's copy of Milosz's New and Collected Poems



My co-worker Jim Harris was very thoughtful and generous to lend me his copy of Czeslaw Milosz's New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001. I'm now ready to return it because Laura bought me my very own copy of the collected poems as well as Second Space, the first collection of poetry since New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001.


Before I return the book, I made sure that I took down the poems I had bookmarked:




  • "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" p. 63



  • "Ars Poetica?" p. 240



  • "Oeconomia Divina" p. 263



  • "Temptation" p. 342



  • "Capri" p. 585



  • "Report", p. 589



  • "My Secrets" p. 792



  • "If" p. 703



  • "An Alcoholic Enters the Gates of Heaven" p. 734



  • "Prayer" p. 742


Thanks, Jim!