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i. Notes about Structure and Connections

In this About Me area, you can learn about my personal background, influences and read my March 2006 Affirmation. By doing so you can learn more about my personal and intellectual context, including where I originated, how I've evolved, in what I've felt interest and how I focus my energies. I hope that in doing so you will help meet such needs of yours as for clarity, understanding, authenticity, integration, intelligibility and meaning.

If you wish, you can explore all the material that appears in this About Me area by reading it from start to finish.

Alternatively, you can click any part of the following Table of Contents in order to skip to only those subsections that interest you. I've endeavored to include hyperlinks within each subsection that, when clicked, cross-reference related material both within this website (including in other subsections of this About Me area) and on other websites.

If you wish to look more briefly at my history and outlook, I've included my March 26, 2006 Affirmation as a Postscript in this About Me area. At the end of that Postscript I've included a link to my Credo, to which my Affirmation refers.

I've also included hyperlinks within that Affirmation. If you click such a hyperlink your web browser will display various subsections of Parts I and II of this About Me area. Such subsections explore, in more detail, the topics that the Affirmation hyperlinks name. When you feel satisfied after having done your more detailed reading, you can return to the Affirmation, possibly by clicking the Back button on your web browser.

Given such structure and connections, some visiting guests may wish to start with the Postscript and, when they want more detailed elaboration, to jump to various subsections.

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ii. Notes about Humor

When I revised and expanded this About Me area in June 2006, for some time I'd wanted to add some humor to my site. So I've added some comments that I hope you will find humorous.

When I include such comments, though, I don't mean to undercut the seriousness of what I elsewhere express. As much as I enjoy a hearty laugh, I also take my life seriously - and by my standards, lighthearted humor in no way needs to contradict such fundamental seriousness.

Regarding how humorous you may find such comments, though, your mileage may vary!

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