Update, last week of Dec 2024. Merry Triple-Merry Christmasssss. :-) For several months, I've been needing each day to have 28 or 29 hours and each week to have 8 or 9 days. I had to find a less expensive place to live so the packing and unpacking and organizing and etc etc have taken up basically all spare time that would otherwise be spent on this wonderfully meaningful stuff. Besides many details of the school bus driver job in the new town. There has been a big change regarding this website, or regarding being able to take time to make content for it regularly and consistently, not that that's been able to happen at all yet anyway. With this move to a new town, even though only 35 miles away, I've learned about some bummer things that many youth are basically forced to endure because what else I've learned is that all the agencies and people and churches that have been gone to for help, have essentially turned blind eyes and dear ears to it because there's either not enough people to be working on the large number of these problems so it's not even possible to deal with them all in a decent thorough manner, or there have been various justifications, and also plain outright excuses, for why such-and-such agency and why such-and-such church supposedly can't be involved or shouldn't be involved. This is whacko cuckoo, because it's like saying these peoples' lives don't matter and their futures don't matter and the future well-being of society doesn't matter. So I've been writing a letter which has evolved into much more than just a letter, that I'll be using as the wake-up call to important necessary changes that really are possible, they can be done, it just takes patient reflective thought with diligence and perseverance with solid conviction about the goodness and rightness. What's nifty-neato about this letter/writing project is that it *also* fits perfectly with the purpose and essence of this website because of the very badly missing reflections that have kept the door swung wide open for these problems to just keep getting worse and worse that my letter is about.

Update, 2nd week of May 2024:  Was finally able to start adding another update a few days ago but other things are causing it to be delayed so I'm at least writing this short little note to say an update is coming as soon as I can finish writing it, and this update is significant because I've had an idea for how to change my approach to getting this website into public view.  It's an approach that is much simpler and shorter quantity-wise instead of believing I'd need a whole bunch of individual writings to cover a broad enough range of subjects, because the one main writing I'm going to focus on ends up being broad enough to affect a broad range of aspects of day-to-day life even though its main substance or meat really is about one main thing.

Update, 3rd week of Feb 2024:  FINALLY the snags really are done & finished & outta' here.  Now I'm completely working on the format and layout for the various screen sizes of phones and tablets and regular computer monitors.  With phones and tablets, there is the added detail of portrait orientation and landscape, where portrait is when your phone or tablet is held up-and-down and landscape is when it's held sideways.  If you're interested in seeing this detail yourself, go to the webpage of What Is My Viewport, and hold your phone or tablet both ways to see the difference in display area.  It also shows the actual screen size, but for webpage display area, what matters is what's called the viewport size or dimensions.  When all these format-and-layout details are taken care of, then finally I'll be able to focus on the goldmine of the content.

Update, 2nd week of Feb 2024:  A few more snags came up even after the 4th week of January which I wrote about in the last paragraph shortly below, but at least most of these have pertained to fine-tuning various details that I'd finally figured out to actually be working.  It's been invigorating and inspiring to also have been taking more notes of what content to write about and why it's very important for this theme of reflective thought that's been badly missing for the importance of remembering the past and studying it.  I'm finally only fine-tuning the appearance and layout in certain places for different screen sizes of phones and tablets and computer monitors and TV's.  It will be very VERY refreshing to finally be done with this phase in the next few days or so, and to actually get content written from the many notes I've taken of what to write about and the sequence

The content is being developed.  The main theme or central idea that I write from is the importance of remembering the past and studying it so that the present can be improved and the future can have a brighter outlook.  Reflective thought in the mind and spirit are crucial attitudes just for being a person and especially for caring about studying the past.  Reflective thought is about studying oneself and studying life, and it requires being interested in having patience and objectivity that cares about actual real truth.  Reflective thought with patience in the mind and spirit would also make a wonderful difference in the normal regular day-to-day life with people and families, and most all of society and especially the world of organized formalized religion.  There is far too little in the world of formalized religion and society as a whole, that acknowledges the importance and puts it into actual practice, of a person's future in their older years, being genuinely happy or at least positive in the mind and spirit. The memories that there will be to look back upon are what is always realized to be the most important aspect of life, in what reasoning processes about life and oneself and people that were the most important.

There is a spirituality to life that isn't given enough attention or focus, and it comes from God, but in a way much simpler than how the world of organized formalized religion is able to convey or propogate it. It is simple and pure spirituality to life that is without pre-conceived ways of believing and without shallowly-manipulated ways of thinking to fit certain expectations of shallow people, and besides being much simpler, it is also a spirituality that is pure because its purity isn't marred by names and labels that end up resulting in what looks like a catalogue of what "so-called truths" to pick-and-choose from.  It simply *is*, and it is of truth and about truth, which ends up making more than "just so-called possible" to have older years and old age to have happy positive memories to look back upon that give warm smiles to the heart and mind and spirit.

This site will be comprised of 2 main areas, one of them being a blog area and the other being a discussion forum with categories to go along with the blog writings and also other related categories.  The responsibilities of basic human decency with respectful considerateness will be abided by here so that no decent respectful respectable person will have to worry about whether or not what they write will be reacted to with shallow impatient cold disrespectful inconsiderateness, and so that what is written by decent respectful respectable people can actually be enjoyed as an actual for-real conversation.

It is as yet an unknown for when enough content will be ready for this site to be public, although I'd hoped it would be Dec 2023. Then the hopeful time-frame had changed to mid-January 2024 when I started to make progress with a couple of programs for creating webpages and it was looking very hopeful that progress would be faster, or rather "fast enough". However, the struggling had continued at understanding how the main program works in too many places for it to really be called a simple program.  The progress became faster, or "less slow" rather, than it was before, but still hindered by figuring out how this program works in many places and having to start over three times but fortunately without too much having been finished up to that point of having to start all over.

In late-January I'd been getting back to where I was after starting semi-over that third time. During this third time, I finally figured out enough of the parts of this program for what the Website Introduction needs.  I thought then that I'd get back to where I was before having to start over.  But no, more snags popped up, the only non-negative thing was that they weren't as difficult as the previous snags.  After this "basic minimum introducton webpage" is finished, then the *real* work will get going on creating the content of blog writings and the category names of discussion forums, along with the full-blown site introduction,