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W elcome to the 23rd year of this weekly column that's updated now infrequently, on Sunday nights or Monday mornings, depending on how well the booze holds out. If you've got any news, clues or rumors to share from around the Bay, or the world, feel free to send them to [email protected] or use the envelope in the masthead. For previous issues, including 2018, visit the Archives.
Walking in the north woods, plagued by thought and worry sometimes a brief glimpse of a possible world where the burdens we have carried so long get set down and we shall suffer no more appears between the trees. No wonder people glom onto images from Tolkein, for the promise is that once the world was filled with wonder and fair things like elves and all the monsters defeated.
It is all very fine to be cynical, for that is a safe road and assured and comfortable in a way. Are you not tired of being cynical? Say not "Is it possible that we will suffer no more?", but that we make our wonder here and now, day by day, knowing what its like out there, knowing its going to be ugly when it all ends.