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Welcome! My goal here is to share the knowledge and wisdom I have been freely given over the course of my life and to share more of it as it continues to come. I consider myself a unique conundrum in this thing; I have been blessed with a wide and deep ocean of knowledge and understanding but my ability to communicate it might be likened to a small country stream through which that ocean is trying to pass. If my self-judgment is accurate, this blog will hopefully serve as something of a water wheel turned by that stream. The resulting mechanical increase of my meager communicative skills will, with a little luck, prove to be a real blessing to you.

The idea for this blog came from an effort called "Light the World" by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church is encouraging all those who would like to participate to participate by seeking to serve people in different ways throughout the month of December 2017; participants can share their efforts if they would like through the hashtag #LightTheWorld. The prompt for December 1st is from Matthew 10:8 which includes the phrase "freely ye have received, freely give". The only thing I could think of that has been consistently given freely to me pertains to intellectual matters. I, therefore, determined to share what I could in as free of a manner as I find myself able at this station in my life: a blog.

In my humble opinion, there is almost nothing I can share with you of greater value. The Buddha is given credit for saying, "there is no wealth like knowledge and no poverty like ignorance" (source unknown). I may still be decidedly lower middle class but I hope I can contribute some meager mite to your storehouse which you can invest and increase into something truly worthwhile for "an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." (Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth)