But though I have managed to forego virtual intellectual wrestling in favor of person-to-person contact and eyes-to-book-to-brain contact, I haven’t been without my thoughts.  And I’ve had an interesting coming together of the last couple of weeks.  It’s been the stuff of the cosmos finding some kind of alignment and allowing me to breathe fully and deeply for the longest time I can remember.  Calmness has been a fleeting transitory state for a long time, so the fact that it’s now been around for a couple weeks has created a new status-quo reality for me.  I appreciate it.