Let’s Take a Quick Break

For the past two years and some change, you have been faithful participants in stumbling over the stardust of this blog, and I am grateful for your consistent companionship. Most of you have read the 121 issues, and your interest has created the kind of synergy a writer needs to keep up the pace. Even so, there comes a time when the best laid plans of mice and old ministers just need to take a break. This good old summertime seems like just the occasion for such laziness on both our parts.

When you’ve sailed your boat through many waters, it’s a good idea to bring it ashore and clean the accumulated barnacles from the hull and do any necessary mending of the sails to catch other winds that may be blowing. Navigating so many imaginary seas to find fodder for thought like these can — without rhyme or reason — leave an ancient mariner like me dodging albatrosses. Don’t get me wrong; it’s been a delightful adventure so far. Rewarding and remarkably renewing. That’s why I think it’s a good time for you and me to “take five” as Brubeck would put it.

While I look forward to returning, I hope you will enjoy your summer Sunday mornings. I’ll be back in a jiffy. In the twinkling of an eye or before you can say “Twinkle, twinkle little star,/ how I wonder what you are/ up above the sky so high/ like a diamond in the sky/ twinkle, twinkle little star/ how I wonder what you are.”

A NOTE: All of our stardust stumbling editions may be found in chronological order by month and year in the “Archive” of the blog. My people [son-in-law Gregg Cagno…IT champion of Philly, PA] and I are investigating the possibility of creating a web book in which the themes may be accessed by categories so you may read it more like a good book than a weekly blog. King James and red letter editions are unavailable.