“Thus some retire to nourish hopeless woe,
Some seeking happiness not found below,
Some to comply with humor, and a mind
To social scene by nature disinclined”
William Cowper, Retirement (1779)
I will not post much, or perhaps at all, for the next few weeks. Under the circumstances, I thought friends and antagonists should know that I am not sulking, or cowed, or chastened. Nor do I have reason to believe I will be prostrated in a hospital, sedated in a madhouse, incarcerated in a prison, or interred in a graveyard. Just preoccupied with other matters IRL.