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Google places e-mails inside three columns of its making. There is the inbox, where go what it has decided has some urgency. Then there is the “Promotions” part with ads for things and notices deemed of secondary or tertiary significance. Then there is “Social,” where go posts from WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Here is where the blog posts go, which I should respond to. I’m not sure how Google decides what goes where, since there is overlap and often I get blog notices in the inbox and advertisements, too. When I’m feeling extra headaches and extra stress from bad neighbors in the building, the kind of stress that presses on my heart when otherwise it needn’t, the inbox is where I go first to catch up on things. How much I might ignore depends on how bad the added pains might be. I’ll go through the promotions next, ignoring most, because it’s relatively easy (because I ignore most of the notices for politics or my money or politics for my money of which I have little, anyway). The column that’s ignored is “Social,” because I should devote good energy there and too often, especially lately, it seems I have none.
I know I’m missing many things. And sometimes “Social” e-mails are slid over to the inbox, and I deal with them there because they’re there and so am I. It’s not much of a strategy or a philosophy, because I let Google decide or WordPress (friends, maybe send things through e-mail). The current time of extra stress and pain has been going on for a while, and it doesn’t help that the new editor at WordPress (the program) is majorly unwieldly. But I keep up the writing and the posting part (parts), because that’s how it all begins. And if you have forbearance, I am
thankful.
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