"Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated"

I'll borrow from Mark Twain and beg your patience another night yet. Much to say about many things, but more important things to say in more private venues, as it has been for a week. Only so many hours in a day and I am stealing from the beauty sleep God knows I need with every stroke of a key, yet weighty things are afoot, just not in this space. Bear with me yet another day I pray. And if I cannot think, then at least I'll link.