Yes, here I am for now. "And the universe rings with the joyful cry, 'I am!'" It does. The universe is always doing that for everyone, despite our lapses in knowing it. And despite all the shit.
Au is the periodic table's symbol for the element gold, and it's also the nickname given to me from my baptismal name Aulaire. Thus my blog's name--Au l'Ancienne means Aulaire the Old. "Old" gold, not "true" gold as in "true gold fears no fire." There are fires I fear.
And "old" as in my seventieth year on the planet.
