http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2019/04/the-long-and-winding-road-of-love-that.html

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Greetings and welcome to Smoking Mirrors. A decade and a half we have been at this. Long enough for me to have forgotten that the site was named after an Aztec deity. We've had high points and low points, large crowds and small venue, late night, art house blogging periods. We've been occasionally compared to people like Jean Baudrillard (I don't see it) and others; the examples being meant as a compliment or an insult. That was awhile ago in any case. These days I can't think of anyone we're similar to; only because few choose to write as we do, since there's no profit in it and a definite possibility of being maligned, censored and repressed. So... why would anyone do it? Exactly.

I do it because I am absolutely convinced of the existence of God and I happen to like what I have experienced, in my pursuit of the elusive character, who is beyond definition as a character; is both personal and impersonal and I like the personal side. It's like being a child with an imaginary friend, who happens not to be imaginary. It's very possible that the imaginary friends of the imaginary child, just referenced, are not imaginary either.