Ok. I’m back. I think. Therefore I am. Back. Boo. My extended unplanned hiatus was originally occasioned by a long weekend trip spent in excellent company enjoying the many creative talents of old friend Bunni. A good time was had. This was followed by some unorganized but nonetheless important taking of year-end inventory. Which was followed in turn by a nasty sinus infection and several long days spent in bed with nothing to do but think about how much my head and its bacteria ridden sinus passages hurt. But thanks in large part to the antibiotics made possible by my really pretty good health insurance (part of the really pretty good benefits package of the academic institution—an acknowledgement that was part of the aforementioned inventory) I am well on the mend and expect to enjoy Christmas relatively phlegm-and pain-free. And I can tend to some of the other results of the inventory.
Like the blog. I have enjoyed the blog these past two years. But I’m not sure I could really tell you why. I could provide a list of possible reasons culled from those two years, but I’m not sure that would amount to a compelling justification for its existence. I thought about it, and I thought about scrapping it. But I realized that it was probably the primary means for my keeping in touch with, or at least feeling connected to on a regular basis, a number of folks who are quite important to me. And that was a fine justification. So it lives. But I have realized what it is not, and what it need not worry about trying to be. So the tone will change some I think. And it will serve some purposes I think I’d like to see it serve. If that sounds enigmatic, well, it’s not really. We shall just see how it goes. I know who reads Tg, and I know I am in good hands. Trusted hands. I am a fortunate man.
More soon.
