While a significant contributing factor, our fallen human nature is a poor excuse for our lapses and failures. Suffice it to say, this is not the first time that I have picked up my quill to write some lines here after a prolonged absence. Such is the nature of life
― mine, at any rate, mea culpa
― a carousel of contrition, confession, penance, amendment . . . and relapse.
I thank God for His mercy and the kindness of my confreres for affording me the opportunity to return to my post, as a prodigal son, and rejoin our common cause: language in the service of a life of reason in the quest for truth, one I've continued to wage elsewhere, however imperfectly
― which brings us back to the opening line. Carousel indeed, won't you join me for the ride?