Re: The Title - Re-Purpose, Resign, then Re-Sign...

Once Again: Allow me to re-iterate...as I indicated a few days ago, after resigning (s sounds a bit like z here) from this blog (as in "I didn't sign up for this" overheard from many 'frontliners' the past few years and in my household after viewing the most recent credit card statement), I found myself casually looking back at a few posts as well as "stats", compelling me to re-start (i.e., "re-sign", even in the absence of a signing bonus) writing here at (semi?)-regular intervals (perhaps not quite as frequently as I am determined not to abandon, defer the other noted writing I am invested in). Initially intended to cover a variety of lighter topics ("re-purposing"). My reverie took me in part to the incredible frequency with which I, myself have utilized the "Re:" in letters, reports, and in e-mails the past several years, as well as the vastness of the prefix "Re", and its recent pervasive appearance in my "In" box, the number of current applications in my own personal and professional experience, in our collective experience as well, I believe. Such as just when I thought I could re-start writing on a variety of topics, lighten up, along comes another detour of the 'vicissitudes' type, in the form of another unwelcome word we may experience in our daily economic vocabulary, as in "Re-cession"... 

Ceding, Re-seeding...Negative Growth (?): So easy to confuse, get confounded by so many terms, word usages, messages these days, let alone when they become truncated, as in texting, tweeting...From the ceding of towns and cities after a siege in the Ukraine, to attempting to (literally) Re-seed after land had been decimated by battles...Different in spelling and implication, of course, than receding of waters after floods the world over have also decimated shoreline villages...or, in my case a hairline for decades now. But lately, and currently, as in "World News" this morning, a 'receding economy'...another "recession" looming (?) This, following not only after a bear market on Wall Street, but a few months of a re-versal of fortunes, at least a short-term, temporary economic decline, a reduction in trade and industrial activity. Which, if followed by a fall in GDP two successive quarters, a period of 'negative growth'...a recession. A condition otherwise characterized by 'negative growth'. Can you relate? Many of you have cited to me an experience the past few years of being 'resigned' to many of the vicissitudes that accompanied COVID onto our shores and eventually to our home-towns. For many this resulted not only in a receding numbers of social options but a longer period of withdrawal. A period of personal negative growth for many. Most of us can also relate to feeling, after a period of personal growth, we have gone a bit 'backwards'...some may actually feel like in the game "Candyland" or "Chutes and Ladders", we have even landed back on square one. Rarely is this actually the case...

Square 17: I like to tell people who have fallen back into old, perhaps less healthy ways, dysfunctional habits following a period of sustained progress, they don't erase the progress they had made, even though it may feel that way. Instead of landing back on "square one" it's more like "square seventeen" or...? BTW "regression in the service of the ego" is a term that evolved from some earlier work by psychoanalysts, referring to some of the "creative benefits of regression..." Kinda' like letting out our inner child..."Candy Land" and all that -- I'm back😀! 

Please stay tuned, re-turn; much more on the way...