I have been remiss in keeping my blogroll updated. Actually, utter failure is probably more accurate. There are new blogs to add as well as several that have changed addresses. I hope to update it this week. Reality just keeps getting in the way. Here is one that has changed addresses. Pagecount has morphed into...Out2Lunch.

"It was cocaine of the soul," snorts prominent blogger

Over the past few days, realising I was thinking of closing this blog without regret or second thought, I continued watching the river. I wanted to find the underlying cause of my dissatisfaction with things American and my recent belligerence towards perceived intolerance or indifference to the United States' role in moderating global interaction. So I read the blogs. My blogs; those I link to and some to which I don't for reasons that have more to do with time than anything else.

In a sense, I've been re-learning simple truths. I've been to all the same old places. Funny thing about the same old places. While they live in us, we put life on temporary hold as we revisit them. But they're there to 'remind us', but not to be lived in. We generally forget the good things we leave behind there, in those old places. I do, anyway. Now I'm back; older, uglier, and not much wiser. Life goes on. I accept these things. I am, after all, a blogger and a professional. I take these things in my stride.
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