I made a little thingamajig to go on the bottom of my posts:
Pretty neat, right?
I'll probably keep tinkering with it, but I'm pleased that I was able to do even that much.
I haven't really shown a pic of myself on here before (other than the thumbnail) so, time to stop being a shy little bugger, this also serves the purpose of being like "haii everyone".
If you're wondering what it means to make a 'full-measure', all I can really do is refer to the great Mike Ehrmantraut:
Basically, there are times where doing something but not being complete or decisive is actually worse than if you had done nothing.
I took a half-measure in 2009 while I was disc golfing on an Oregon beach.
The sea was frigid that day, and after an errant toss my disc was kind of rocking back and forth on one of the waves. There was a brief moment in time where I needed to just decide, and I probably could have saved it.
Doing nothing at all would at least have kept me dry.
But I pussyfooted and stepped into the ocean without a sense of purpose or clear commitment, unsure if it was worth it to get the disc.
And so I got pointlessly wet and lost the disc anyways.
I think we're at our best when we spend our energy on isolated spurts of inspiration.
If you want to tell somebody you love them, you should make a complete expression when you're ready. If you step in halfway and try to navigate gingerly and aren't really clear or to the point, now there might be more confusion about how you feel than if you had said nothing.
Or you can take a cheesy example from history, like Rosa Parks not giving up her seat that day.
Paradoxically, it's the unbridled spurts that cause there to be balance. Without them we tip. And basically everything that's calm and steady, we owe to the moments that are everything but. We owe it to the full-measure.