Somewhat to my surprise, getting back into the habit of writing these columns isn't as difficult as I expected. Certainly I'm rusty, and can use some oiling in order to get the sentences, and the links, to flow. But I was pleased to discover that after I placed my hands on the keyboard and started to think in English, and perhaps in Boidemese, I found myself readily getting into shape.
That, however, isn't the case with the points I want to make. This column was left stranded almost a year ago, and picking it up where I left off requires that I attempt to think back a year. I have no difficulty understanding what I meant by:
We may realize that out of sight may very legitimately, and even thankfully, be out of mindbut I find myself scratching my head and wondering where I intended to go with that here. Apparently I didn't intend to contradict myself, since the title of this column, which hints at a continuation, was chosen way back then. But if I didn't intend to claim the opposite of what I'd written, did I really have new material that could justifiably expand on the thoughts expressed in that column? Or perhaps, as I'm beginning to remember as I type my thoughts onto the screen, the real value of the Boidem isn't that it affords me an opportunity to reach conclusions, but that it lets me examine thoughts and ideas that may seem, in a moment of "insight", deep and meaningful, and to realize that it wasn't all that profound to begin with.