So Long

It's been so long since I've posted here with any regularity, and I don't have much to say at the moment except that the passage of time is such a strange thing -- the way it jerks you out of those valleys full of overgrown shadows, which you had stopped hoping to ever escape, and the way it tricks you into stepping off of those sunny mountaintops, giggling to yourself like Mr. Magoo. The projector whirs, the images flicker, and sometimes you are ready to assent once and for all to the wisdom of the nursery rhymes, and the big shivery nights of childhood seem as if they are just around the corner again.