Karate

I didn’t mean to be absent from here for so long, but I’ve been busier than usual. Most of you would be quite surprised to learn what’s taken up a large chunk of my time of late.

Along comes an amazing inspiration.

And even though it isn’t one of my favorite colors, I’m pretty happy about it.

Well, not really; but since I’m mangling song titles, I’ll continue in that vein. Although we are several miles closer to the coast than we were, it is certainly not the case that “from here you can almost see the sea”. At least two ridgelines separate us from the ocean. We are, however, on the shore of a lake nestled between mountains.

It’s been too long since I’ve contributed anything here—primarily because I wanted the long-awaited book review to be next (and it’s still incubating), and partly because I’ve been very busy and a little reluctant to share part of that here. But I’ll explain—a little bit—once we’re in the gazebo.