I have been remiss of late; haven't posted anything in almost a week.  No real excuse…except that I have gotten into a better writing groove on my book.  The endless chapter 5 is just about done.  And that's good.  But I do need to get some posts up here….

Perhaps my drop off in bloggy productivity is due to the longevity of this humble site.  Yesterday was the four year anniversary of The Useless Tree!  The second post of that first day explained that blog title, useless tree..  And the very first post, "Beginning a Beginning," was a veiled reference to a passage in Zhuangzi.  Since I do not have any deep and profound things to say on this blog birthday, let me simply give you the whole quote from Zhuangzi.  It is, I believe, meant to be a parody of the logicians he so loved to bait:

Being a beginning.  Being not yet beginning to be a beginning.  Being not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be a beginning.  Being being.  Being nonbeing.  Being not yet beginning to be nonbeing.  Being not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be nonbeing.  Then suddenly, being nonbeing.  And when it comes to nonbeing, I don't know yet what's being and what's nonbeing. (26)

There now: I've spoken.  But I still don't know whether it was being spoken or nonbeing spoken.

Happy birthday!