A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-Three-Hundred-And-Sixty-Four

I think that I finally got to the core of this essay and why it has been so difficult.  I was working on a piece of it that was almost tangential, but, in tying it back together, I finally came to understand what the essay is really about.  Thus is an important step, though it may be that I need to begin again, or, at the least, revise what is there in light of what I now have in mind.