This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.