I’m posting this brief announcement to give notice of my upcoming absence. I expect to be AWOL from the website for a few weeks. This is not a shutdown due to Covid-19, fortunately, but simply a temporary hiatus brought on by my need to have surgery on my eyes: Tomorrow, Thursday, 3 February. I suffer from a condition called glaucoma that has proved difficult to control with medication and simpler procedures, so I will be having a more invasive, but hopefully more successful, intervention that will require a recovery period of several weeks. The irony is that the concept behind Agath – opsis, its very name, proceeds from the notion of a “vision”. So, I do find it ironic that it is my (temporarily) impaired vision that brings things here to a halt although you do not have to have good vision to have a vision of the good. I expect to resume again several weeks from now once both eyes have been treated and recovered. Until then, I hope you will come to the site, visit the Blog and the pieces in the Contemplations section, leave comments, and make suggestions for improving site design or navigation.

I will see you again soon, when I can see better.