Reading List on the Net {I read too much, do too little}

I posted the first Reading List on the Net for me last week, with just two links. Here is the list that I mentioned in that post about others that I've not gotten to read yet...but I mean to. This is how I put them in a post:

1. http://thecommonroomblog.com/2015/03/in-which-the-dhm-kicks-herself-for-not-practicing-what-shes-preached.htm/
2. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/08/how-to-write-in-700-easy-lessons/308043/
3. http://www.charlottemasoninstitute.org/draw-your-own-conclusions-by-dr-donna-johnson/
4. https://www.circeinstitute.org/blog/two-views-math-three-kinds-math-students
5. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/10/the-bbc-writing-christianity-out-of-history.html
6. http://www.liberty.edu/online/index.cfm?PID=29040&blogpid=28541&id=853375
7. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/12/timeless-essays-t-s-eliots-christianity-and-culture.html
8. https://4beautyinthechaos.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/cm-open-house-form-1/
9. https://draxe.com/borage-oil/
10. http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/7-cultural-concepts-we-dont-have-in-the-us
11. https://www.circeinstitute.org/podcast/commons-3-angelina-stanford-legacy-celts
12. http://healthycures.org/neuroscientist-shows-what-fasting-does-to-your-brain
13. http://www.onepeterfive.com/a-screwtape-letter-for-the-unappreciated-mom/
14. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears-off
15. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160211141337.htm
16. http://sageparnassus.blogspot.com/2016/02/parts-and-passions-what-to-look-for-in.html?m=1
17. https://www.circeinstitute.org/blog/lord-flies-evil-recognized-redemption-begun

Looking at the long list, I realize I read too much and do too little. Pshaw, right? Can't read too much. Well, I suppose that would depend on what the purpose of reading is in the first place. 

My son woke up this morning- or rather got out of bed- rather late. I'm torn on the whole get-em-up-early or let-them-get-their-needed-teenage-sleep. That's perhaps a topic for another day. But he got up late because he had an idea that 'had to work itself out completely' before he could get up. He had to let it play out in his mind, come to fruition, for use in something he will do later today or this week. Some point.

When he told me why he got up late I questioned why he didn't just get up right then and do something with the idea. It had to work itself out completely. Ideas beget ideas...

I'm noticing -keep noticing?- that I intend to read a lot, and sometimes I actually get to read what I intend. But what do I do with what I've read? Fortunately I do not read cleaning magazines or how-to manuals. If I read those sorts of things I am sure there would be the realistic expectation of something to show for that reading. 

But that's my point- there should be something to show for all that reading. What of *my* reading? What should be the output from all of that? 

I don't have an answer at the moment.