Great Thought #2 or Purpose

This morning when my dog Sam burst out of the front door, eager to start another day of Things To Be Done, he disturbed a delegation of wildlife. As the two cats, one kitten, three squirrels and four sparrows scattered, faint cries of "Deny your public no longer!" and "Sweet, be not so unkind" drifted back to me. After serious pondering I have decided to dither no longer. The purpose of this blog is to afford the general public greater access to Flannery Thought (not to be confused with Mao Tse-Tung Thought). Helen Gurley Brown was motivated by a similar principle when she took over the struggling Cosmopolitan magazine, intending to use it in lieu of personal responses to fan mail from readers of her book Sex and the Single Girl. It should go without saying that I'll begin where she left off (that is, with a permanent face-lift smile).