Welcome back Jim! I have quietly followed your blog for well over half of those nine years. Perhaps I've commented just once or twice. In that time I've followed and fled from a number of other blogs, but I've always valued your writing. Yours is a unique voice - an admixture of wisdom, lyricism, keen aesthetic sense, and a delight in nature, the divine, literature, and ideas that remains edifying and beguiling. I hope you you keep blogging for at least another 9 more! Kind regards, Damien