If you do something every day, and then you stop doing that something for a period of time, the intervening intermission can have a distancing effect that provides space to reconsider what you were doing before.

A Write All Nite book club would meet to discuss the book *while* we’re reading it.

There’s a common refrain that, if Jesus re-graced the Earth with his presence today, instead of igniting the firestorm of controversy that greeted his first foray and that of other self-proclaimed prophets (Joan of Arc anyone? Joseph Smith? Etc.), present-day humanity would completely ignore him, too distracted by contemporary life’s endless cornucopia of nonstop bells-and-whistles to properly appreciate the Messiah in our midst.

Hold your eye-rolls while I quote my own kicker:

A happy ending? In this economy?