As I spend way too much time on social media, I’m discovering that in this era of ever-diminishing attention spans, writers are taking longer and longer to get to the point.
An ad about a new product that solves a problem spends paragraph after paragraph describing the problem in infinite detail, then outlining failed attempt after failed attempt to fix it. After awhile the reader starts scrolling ahead, ready to scream, “WHAT IS THE SOLUTION AND HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?!?!”
And so I’m going to skip all that and get straight to the point, so you can get on with your day:
Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Everything else flows from there.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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