Note to readers:

Hello, faithful readers.
It's with some regret that I must tell you that I may not be posting for a week or two.
While I've been known to vanish without a trace before, I've decided that it's unfair to leave you all hanging without some sort of explanation anymore.
Believe me, you are probably more important to me than I am to you, and I'd hate to lose a single one of you.

There's nothing to be overly alarmed about.
I'm just experiencing a spate of health set-backs that make it uncomfortable for me to sit at my computer (or anywhere else for that matter) for any length of time.
I tend, as you know, to write rather long posts and I'm finding it difficult to continue under the circumstances.
I've been to the Dr. and am looking forward to a complete recovery in the next week or so, so please be patient, I will return in the blink of an eye.

Since I also can't spend a lot of time surfing the web, if you happen to find something that catches your eye or interest, please feel free to add a comment, with the web address, after this message and I'll follow it up as my health allows.

Thanks a million, one and all, and stay on guard against tyranny and injustice wherever it raises its ugly head, because, we are the People.

One final thing as a parting gift for the voracious among you.
I'd like to recommend a book that I'm reading for the third time through.
Everytime I read it I'm stunned and amazed by its shear beauty of language (almost poetry I'd say) and the depth of its insights into the ways of humans.
It's fairly short, very fast and as satisfying as dinner at Per Se.

"The Razor's Edge"
by
W. Somerset Maugham.

I declare it an absolute "must read."
Enjoy, and goodbye for now.