This site is not the place it was 3 years ago and nor could it or should it be as change is the human mandate. Time has passed, people have come and gone, people are older, wiser, more jaded, realistic, worn out, suspicious, otherwise involved, resting.... but mostly waiting for something special to happen. It's like the creatures in the desert that await the rain before they come back to life.... but if the drought lasts too long, some may be lost..... but rain will inevitably come. Interesting that we are at our weakest as we stand on the ridge of the promised land, having come a very long way.... and even stranger yet that this journey has been travelled almost exclusively in the mind, yet for some there will have been a physical as well as a mental toll, a financial toll, an interpersonal toll. Some have made this journey at a cost while others a profit. Here we are, all of humanity in this microcosm of this human experience.