Call it the February blahs, but it seems like it’s getting tough to sustain the revolution a bit these days… My friend Christian Long is threatening to go out in a blaze of posting glory over at think:lab, and many of the bloggers I read on a regular basis seem to have gotten a bit more quiet lately.

(Of course, Tim Fredrick then blew me away today with his post about reflective utterances in the portfolio process today… and it was his first post in a few weeks… maybe that’s telling.)

For me, I found myself starting to resent the blogging process. I wanted to turn off for a bit because between feeling like I had to write and I had to read, I was just feeling overwhelmed. It helps that I was sick as a dog last week, but I also found that I was reading everything… blogs, EdWeek, EdLeadership, the Marshall Memo… and I was trying to process everything… and I was (and to some degree still am) starting to really grind my gears. And I found that it seemed like many of the blogs and articles were saying the same thing.

So what did I do? Well, my body gave out and pretty demanded that I didn’t do much more than work and rest.

And the beautiful thing was that when I came back today, the blog was still here… my news aggregator was just as full, and my wife had recycled a few of the magazines that I hadn’t gotten to yet.

And I think that this is important. We all are driving ourselves to write and write and write and read and read and read… but we also have to remember to do. I’ve got the first interviews for SLA coming up this week… we’ve got building meetings… and soon, I’ll have teachers to co-plan with and our first parent meeting to host. And yes, blogging about all this stuff is still very important to me… and I’m also realizing that I can stop trying to write so many closed posts and get back to what I was doing in September which was writing more open ended posts that solicit responses.

And I’m also going to give myself the time to enjoy my son and my wife’s company… to enjoy the hours after work as, every now and again, just after work hours. (I’ve loved the Olympics this past week and a half.)

And I’m going to do that in the hope that what I do write on here will be worth reading about… Because this does have to be sustainable. In the end, it moves us closer to the Open Source Schools… where the best ideas are shared, changed, remixed and changed.

Now we all need the time to make it happen.