I like the idea of sabbaticals a lot. I love the idea of taking time off and having an extended period of rest to refresh your creativity and enable you to return with renewed enthusiasm and verve.

Unfortunately, I also like the idea of being incredibly productive at all times. Is there really any better feeling than looking back over your day and being able to point to tangible accomplishments? You can be like, look at me, I did all this! In only one day!

This is silly, because in all actuality, no one is ever all that impressed with my accomplishments of the day. But I suppose that’s why we have the Instagram, so that when our loved ones grow weary of admiring us, we have a whole host of strangers just waiting to click that heart.

By the way, do follow me on Instagram, if you don’t already. You’ll be getting some high quality content and can hear about all my accomplishments, like when I do the dishes or write a new poem. You don’t want to miss out.

Speaking of poetry, I actually do have a new poem to share with you all. I wrote it by special request. It’s about whales.

WHALES

In the sea, there lived a whale

And he was small from head to tail

He wanted to get bigger though

Cause that’s how whales should be

He asked his mother what to eat

To grow as big as forty feet

She said the best thing whales could eat

Was lots and lots of kale

The little whale searched the sea

until he found some kale to eat

He crunched it up between his teeth

But it tasted really foul

Oh, yuck, he thought disgustedly

This kale stuff is not fit to eat

It’s green and bitter, like a leaf

But I do want to be a big whale

Then his mother swam up cheerfully

and asked him why he ate those leaves

The little whale sighed and then explained

That he was trying to eat kale

There’s been a mistake, his mother said

A misunderstanding, if you will

You see, it’s not kale whales should eat

but actually, it’s krill

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