I’ve been absent from the site for a while. My Wife’s Chemo was stopped about 45 days ago when she had become to weak too tolerate the medications. After that she began a rapid and accelerating decline.

She died peacefully and without pain on May 20 in the early afternoon eleven months and two days after her cancer diagnosis. Her Daughter was here when she left and was a major help in the final days.

Still going to be absent another few weeks or so. A lot of running around filing documents signing myriad forms all over the place. But after that things should start settling back down and then… it’s Back to Work.

The Librarian

Sorry I’ve been absent a bit. Being a caregiver eventually starts to take up more and more of your life and you become focused on what you need to do often putting other things aside with plans to get to them… tomorrow. Just happened to go to sleep early and wake up early today.

I’m posting a link that I ran across this morning to a classic story being reprinted for a new generation. Reading it brings back into clear focus just how complex our Technological/Industrial Infrastructure really is and why it will be SO difficult to rebuild it if we ever need to since EVERY part of that would have to be rebuilt and operating before someone as simple as a pencil could be manufactured.

Something as seemingly simple and ubiquitous as Pencil is really a worldwide ballet dance of production and coordination that makes your head spin when you really start looking at it. It also brings into focus just how vulnerable the entire Infrastructure really is.

https://townhall.com/columnists/tompurcell/2026/05/05/classic-essay-i-pencil-revisited-n2675521

The Librarian