81. The gales of October, in retrospect

There are so many things in life whose challenges I never understood until they crashed over me like the waves of an angry sea and left me drenched and dealing with the flood. Perhaps that sounds dramatic, but not so dramatic that it fails to be true. There are many posts I want to write, and many books I want to read and to review. But instead I’ve been running just to stay in place for… well,…