I'm stalled out. I've had a string of days where nothing particularly good, bad, or even in between happened that I haven't already mentioned in the previous 234 days. I feel like I am scraping the bottom of the barrel and nothing is coming up. How SAD is this? How SAD is it that I can't come up with something, not previously mentioned, to be grateful for? I'm behind four days at this point and I sit here thinking and drawing a total blank. Even leaning upon Ann Voscamp's Love Dares has me high and dry. Truth be told some of them require a little deeper thinking than I really want to do right now and some just don't...work for me. Has the well of gratefulness run dry? I certainly hope not. I can't imagine that it has. If it has then that is more SAD than being stalled out for a few days! This is the challenge of a 365, and for me in particular this theme of 365. The moments of having nothing to put out there, of not being inspired one iota, of searching for content and coming up empty handed are frustrating. I'm thinking of a scene (or two or three) in Julie & Julia (if you recall from waaaaaaaaaaaay back to my first 365 that is where this idea was born from - a friend who did it and then I jumped on as well) in which Julie has a meltdown because she can't truss up the chicken correctly. I feel a meltdown coming on when I'm staring at four days of being unable to verbalize any gratefulness for anything! But just like Julie has a breakthrough in the movie so I know at some point I will have a breakthrough as well. So until then.
There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.
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