This is my final weekly post. From September 3, 2011 to September 5, 2026 there is an entry on every Saturday. For the first thirteen years, with one single exception, I posted on time, before midnight, every time. Discipline. In the fourteenth year and the first half (or so) of the fifteenth year, I had to backdate a few posts by a day or two to keep them on Saturday, but I still posted weekly. In the past six months I have limped to this, the finish line. Though many of these final few are still valid, considered thoughts, some I have borrowed from previous self-published work and some I just posted to post.

I am not quitting - I am moving on.

Fifteen years and more than 650,000 words. I think my goal from the beginning was to save the world. In this regard I have failed. But as a personal accomplishment, this effort and discipline has kept me learning, inspired, and (possibly) functionally sane.

In just the last (very) few years I have realized (what I believe to be) the fact that the world does not want to be saved, so I am changing my focus. By moving on I am not lowering my personal expectations for myself, I am merely downsizing. My world is becoming smaller. Moving forward, my selfish need to be unselfish - to serve, to help others, to improve process, to personally continue to learn and grow - will be more precisely targeted, more productive, more efficient, and more selfish.

I suppose my desire to downsize reflects my emotional evolution. Over the past fifty-plus years my go-to emotional state has traveled from inspirationally hopeful to curiously hopeful to hesitantly hopeful to hopelessly hopeful and my range of emotions when faced with injustice, (personal or otherwise) has always moved from anger to sadness to disappointment then back to my base state of some degree of hopefulness. The difference most especially in recent years is that I move much more quickly through anger and disappointment, splitting most of my time between sadness and hopelessly hopeful. In some instances anger and disappointment are so fleeting, I barely notice them. And in this I hope to find some peace.