I'm not sure that I really have anything new to say. I just felt I should update this since I found out someone actually does read it periodically.
I'll probably write more later. I just wanted to bring this back into the forefront of my mind.
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock), and I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. --The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot. 1922. part I: The Burial of the Dead, lines 25-30.