> Ah. I feel that way about it too. Even though things are a bit under the weather lately, this morning I read Sam's lucid response to the "fun things to psychoanalyze" thread and was enormously cheered up. This is what I love about Sam: that he cares, and he shows it. In my mind's eye, I have an image of Sam, sometimes skating and navigating a treacherously icy lake. But he does so with balance and verve... in his wake I can see grace, edged in a thin blue line.

As much as this thread is pleasing to my self-serving ego, this is getting just a little bit embarrassing. Grace, edged in a thin blue line? Beautiful prose, I must say, but....