So. The Days of Awe are upon us again, Gentle Readers, as seems to happen every year. Which is, I suppose, a Good Thing, considering the alternative.\n
On the other hand, the recurring nature of the holiday and the cyclical nature of the (lunar) calendar mean that I do kinda run out of things to say. Plus, this year I am less focused on meditative rebirth as on the Sukkah I’m going to build once all this Awe is over. Should be a big one this year, and it’s early enough that there is some chance of having dinner in it without freezing.\n
Well, the point is that while my fate was Written on Rosh Hashanah, it is not Sealed until Yom Kippur. And the Divine is merciful, and judges with mercy, tradition tells us that the Divine cannot forgive me for offenses against other people until the other people have forgiven me themselves. Or at least until I have asked—asked three times, actually, in case anybody does not forgive me on the first go around, presumably figuring that it was a perfunctory apology made without really thinking about the nature of the offense and its likelihood of recurring.\n
I have mentioned here before that I don’t think much of the general apology for that reason. I do hope that Gentle Readers will forgive me for the things that I have done and left undone that have hurt y’all in any way, and I regret doing (or not doing) those things, whatever they are. But of course not knowing what they are means that I can’t really resolve not to do them again.\n
That said, I really have been neglecting this blog, and I will attempt to do better. I think I have been neglecting comment threads as well, not really engaging when y’all make good points, and not acknowledging when your comments have been persuasive and changed my thinking. So I will do better on those. And I have to catch up on the ridiculous book backlog, but that’s more for myself—I doubt, somehow, that y’all have been disappointed by how few Book Reports I’ve been writing lately.\n
While I’m on the responsibilities of Your Humble Blogger to the Gentle Readers of this Tohu Bohu, let me ask: is there anything y’all would like me to focus on? I haven’t been writing politics for a good long while, mostly because I rarely feel I have anything to add to what’s already out there. But if y’all are looking for a place to discuss things, and my lack of starting posts has been inhibiting that, I’m certainly game. Or if there’s another topic or field y’all want me to head over to. I have not been opening the documents with a bunch of potential ideas lately (other than the list of books, of course), so if anyone wants to give me a bit of a push, I’m only too happy to be pushed. I really do want to make this Tohu Bohu a good place for Gentle Readers, and am even willing to put work into it, if only I weren’t so lazy…\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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