Because this is far too complicated for anybody but a full-fledged Nurd to post here -- it contains six photographs, each captioned, and thus would take me literally hours to wrestle it into the Blogger format -- I am merely posting a link:
https://tinyurl.com/53zzz2nr
I sincerely hope this will suffice, as I think it perhaps the most important text-and-picture essay I have yet written in my 14 years as a blogger.
Apologies and thanks,
Loren Bliss
NOTE: I finally figured out how to post the entire piece on 24 August. Meanwhile, many thanks for your readership.
--Loren Bliss
