A New Hope

For us Easterners (Orthodox and Byzantine, that is), September 1 constitutes the Liturgical and actual new year. It is both the time of the barley harvest (an important feast for Europeans) and it is the Byzantine regularization into a solar calendar of the Jewish Lunar Feast of Rosh Ha Shanna, or the Jewish New Year. This is thought by Orthodox (both Jewish and Eastern Christian alike), to be the commemmoration of the first Day, in which God said, Let there be light.

It is thus a time of harvest, and of new beginnings. At any rate, I always felt so, in my heart of hearts, long before I turned my eyes Eastwards.

It is also a time of new resolution. Because of my difficulties, I have failed to post much in the last couple of years or so. I resolve that as of now, that will change.

I also resolve to post much more in my other two weblogs, Legal Secrets, and Abbe Faria's Cell. To that end, I have begun, as I have promised, to put an updated version of Blackstones Commentaries of the Laws of England, as the first step towards providing a treatise for the legal education of laymen and women. I invite you to read it.

Watch this space.