SAD DAY

There was an account malfunction on my blog this past Sunday (07/16/2017) -- all of my published posts and all but six (6) of the posts I was working on (specifically the 6 most recent posts that I had worked on) were erased.

Part of my heart broke -- I never realized how much like a journal this blog has been: the time and energy set apart to organize your thoughts, formulating questions, doing the research, drinking deeply and intently from the available knowledge, sorting through the stack for the important information, attempting to answer those questions, carving out an opinion, anticipating questions and dissenting arguments, doing more research regarding those questions, synthesizing the answers you find, re-assessing your original conclusions in light of any new evidence, revising it as necessary (based on the evidence), then meticulously writing and re-writing then starting over then writing then re-writing again then editing then writing and re-writing some more in order to try as hard you possibly can to make as sure (as much as your wit and your grasp of the English language can guarantee) that you will not be misunderstood, then the thrill and dread of putting yourself out there, throwing your gauntlet into the fight. They were blog posts, but they were important to me, and I think they would have been important to others,  had they survived for people to read as more people discovered my blog. I think that the principles of individual liberty are not very well understood by many of at least my and the next generation (and maybe of the previous generation), but it seems to me that these topics still resonate with even an incomplete understanding of them. I believe that they are still important to the majority of our American people, and they are important enough to defend with thoughtful strains and straight-forward presentation.

Loosing any progress in this way is frustrating to be sure. There was some grieving, even mourning. I've considered, but don't think that I have the personal resolve to do so, recreating the lot of those erased posts before proceeding with any further posting as usual. The ideas for those posts will simply rejoin the "cloud" of my mind. The topic of individual liberty, personal freedoms, natural laws -- I anticipate that they will come up again and again and again in our future discussions. Eternal principles tend to do that, return again and again to the discussion. So I will write posts on the lost topics as they come up again. For now, I look to the future, intending to continue immediately where I left off. I pray for your patience, that I may yet explain myself as intelligibly as possible, and that you will leave satisfied as least in the knowledge that you knew what I meant.