Too numerous to count?
It's in the very nature of the Boidem - dare I say its essence - that the
personal and the universal interact, enmesh, feed upon each other in these pages.
Numerous examinations of topics here have sprung from personal experience, many
"universal" phenomena have been placed under the magnifying glass of
my own experience in order to test their efficacy. If I didn't do this, it wouldn't
be the Boidem. And yet, as I've noted (at least a
few times, and probably hinted numerous more) this isn't a personal web site,
but rather a series of columns that allows (and sometimes even demands) personal
reflection as a means of achieving more universal observations.
And yet, some topics are more personal than others. It's precisely because of
the highly personal nature of the catalyst of this particular column that I've
hesitated to post it. And that in turn clearly points toward my own ambivalence
toward the extent (and the limits) of the interaction between the personal and
the universal on this site.
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