The website was opened in October, 2001. For me, it’s a diary of sorts.
I hope that frequent entries in this personal/political journal will
help me make sense of what’s going on in a time more difficult than
any I can remember. It’s not that we have yet come upon anything equivalent
to the Nazi-Axis drive for world conquest or the great depression of
the 1930s. It’s that the long-term problems are now so enormous, and
the direction of world and domestic affairs seems to be toward impasse,
or worse, rather than to collective solutions.
In this website journal, I expect to share my hopes and pleasures as
well as worries and ideas. I will be talking and sorting things out
mostly for myself, but I’ll try not to be self-indulgent to the point
of boring my friends and others who look in on me here.
From a personal standpoint, the difficulty of these times is partly
a function of aging. I’m healthy, but I’ve gradually drifted outside
all the loops I navigated before retiring. The same holds for many of
my close friends, and is compounded by illness and growing disability.
So that experience is also an undercurrent in the musings that will
find their way into my journal.
The form I’ve chosen for this diary/journal is to post updates on the
home page every few days, or sometimes weeks;
the entire journal can be viewed as it evolves.
The directory will also include items excerpted
from the Journal on selected topics as well as several earlier articles
and talks.
I’m looking forward to company on this website. Please send me e-mail
often.
Leon Wofsy