Oops by debgrant
I send out ELOGOS via a website service called substack. I write ELOGOS on the website NEW POST page. Then I re-read it…sometimes in a sloppy manner. Well, always in a sloppy manner. Then I hit the PUBLISH button. This sends ELOGOS via email to my 300+ subscribers. This also publishes the new post to my substack web page from which I send a link to my Facebook pages. After hitting PUBLISH, I often discover with different levels of horror that there was something I needed to edit in the post. I can edit the substack web page, but the 300+ emails I just sent have my sloppy mess contained forever. Usually the result of my head working faster than my hands and generally being a sloppy typist. Add being a sloppy copyreader. Well, you get the sloppy picture. I have had a few ELOGOS readers over the years though not recently offer to copyread my posts for me before I send them out. They were gentle and sweet without telling me how truly consistently sloppy I am. I still cringe at this suggestion. Another layer of bureaucracy being created because of my sloppiest. Clean up on Aisle Deb! Which is the story of my freakin’ kitchen but that is another story.
The most recent ELOGOS post, MISSION STATEMENT, was riddled with wrong verb tenses, missing words and garbled sentences. Oops. I love the word Oops. A linguistic professor friend once told me that it is the most universally understood word in the world. I think it is marvelous that the one word that could be the starting point for uniting all people on the planet is a word that admits we have something to fix.
What I cherish is that I have 300+ readers on my ELOGOS email list. I would love to have more which happens when people share what I post and invite others to subscribe. It’s free. But I have to show some attentiveness for that kind of loyalty. Yesterday, I said my mission statement was to be at peace inside my own skin at least enough so that I don’t make other people or creatures miserable.
Making too many typos makes me itchy inside my own skin and makes at least a few readers stumble. So today I will make some changes in my writing process to curb the production of my typos. I know that saying Oops is not enough. Action is needed. Accountability is appropriate. If we can do this with typos, maybe we can find other areas of misery we can address with grace and tenderness. Thank you for your reading, your loyalty and your patience.
p.s. I am allergic to commas. You probably know that about me. Sometimes I don’t need the Comma Police. I just need to be understood. Hmmm. Don’t we all?
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I love ‘oops’ and commas, but mostly I love you! Happy Valentine’s Day!💜♥️💜
Deb, Grace abounds. And here I thought you were exercising artistic license... Thank you for this quote: "Action is needed. Accountability is appropriate. If we can do this with typos, maybe we can find other areas of misery we can address with grace and tenderness." Blessings on your day today (Oops and all).