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Realistic Intentions

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I have a tendency to over-commit myself, which usually takes the form making a claim that I’ll finish something by a particular date, when there was really no realistic way to make that deadline. I just noticed that way, way back on July 9, I introduced the Featured Books category on this site with Jane Bath’s The Landscape Design Answer Book: More Than 300 Specific Design Solutions for Your Landscape and said that I’d publish a review of the book in a couple of days. Well, I’m not finished yet, and I only know that I’ll be finished sometime soon. Bath’s book is no ordinary garden design book, and I’ve ended out taking a very close look at it, reading it from cover-to-cover — which I suspect (or believe, from my own experience) is not what usually gets done with a book of that kind. Why I’ve ended out approaching Bath that way should be clear from my review, once it’s completed; for now, I’ll just say that Bath’s entire approach is so different that I’m determined to give the book the attention I feel it deserves, even if the review seems to suffer from a long delay.

On a lighter note, I guess, the good thing about setting your own deadlines is that it’s really pretty easy and painless to break them. To a point, anyway….



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