Thanks to Beliefnet’s Valerie Reiss for blogging so beautifully in my absence. I took last week off to rest my tired typing hands, massage my elbows, see my optometrist, clean the house, and get ready for the holidays. I didn’t do as much yoga as I’d hoped, but I now feel freer of a few hindrances.

Apparently, in 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow begged out of attending Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

by saying he was too busy with “an unusual pressure of those numberless nothings, which like the remora, impede us as we sail the sea of life.”

Remora are obnoxious fish with “sucking disks” that attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships and other seafaring objects. Remora slow down the flow of progress. Ha! So I am now more free of my own remora, and happy to be back. No doubt, more numberless nothings will surface, but I can always blog about them.