Although it may look, at this point, as if I’ve pretty much abandoned the blog, I want to assure those who still stop by that I haven’t – it’s just been a difficult time for writing. The complications attending my brother’s death are mostly over, but the month of July is when our family converges on the Cape, and with our son Nick’s recent nuptials, the group is bigger than ever. (At the moment we have fourteen people distributed between our modest house and a nearby rental.)
That said, I won’t deny that, having achieved septuagenarian status, the words don’t flow onto the page quite as smoothly they used to. But the things that I understand, I think I understand better than ever, and although I now see that the the scope of my ignorance and mystification is greater than I had ever suspected, the things that puzzle and baffle me are still worth thinking about, and writing about. So I’ll be back – by August at the latest, and possibly sooner.
Thanks as always to all of you. Enjoy your summer.