Welcome to November '23! May it be the prologue of 2024.

I've been cycling the existence of this website. At night, I want to tear it all down; in the morning, the pendulum shoots across the stars and I want to build the site up further. I'm going to have to trust one of these fellas. Since I'm writing this in the morning: "Hey, Night Guy. Keep this place running."

(—I'm sure he'll listen.)

These reflections are different at 45 compared to age 25 in 2003. I do not know whether my world is larger now or if it is smaller. I really hope it cannot be said of me that in 2023 I look back more than the 2003 me who gazed out onto the horizon at the adventure ahead. I don't think I have changed in that regard, though the destinations are different. At 25, my peers and I had bucket loads of vitality shoved into our pockets. In these days, can the same be said of all? A life of vitality is the life of a risk taker. And I've got that in spades. We just cannot play it safe. Inaction is the harbinger of atrophy.

And so it is, what I left behind for the denizens of Facebook:

So here, I stand, I'm ready for anything
Just, a man, but I'm giving everything
We're here only for a second and then
We're gone when we least expect it
So do more than survive
Let's live like we're alive

-Nevertheless, Live Like We're Alive

The other day When I wrote Best Of, Volume I: the Rule of Three, I wasn't just talking. What I didn't do in that post is to scaffold it accordingly to show that it is the mindset that's important. And that mindset, a focus propels it over the finish line. Perhaps that's the chief end of this website.