feet of clay keep you grounded

I think you have to discard a certain self-consciousness to do a blog. Either that, or you have an overabundance of self-regard, or you're totally clueless about how others see you, or you're like me.. of an age when it's hardly worth wondering what the majority of the herd thinks about your behavior. In Casteneda's writings one of the main themes is that Death is your constant companion. Now that the mists are clearing around the 'finish line', the hovering of this particular daemon gets a bit more noticeable for me, and the muttering of the masses carries less and less weight in my world. So... 'word mincing' isn't likely to be one of my personal guidelines as I go forward (backward?) with my writing here.