I certainly understand the struggles. And the desire to be the best you can be at what you do is a real challenge. Sometimes life puts us in circumstances where, if we want to accomplish something, we have to do it ourselves, otherwise, the chances are, it won't get done. I am well acquainted with this conflict.

"Errors mine-laden fields"? haha ... Don't fret too much. Of course it depends on why one writes, but I don't think most readers would ever know, or care. There are errors in everything man-made I'm convinced. For example ... I found 3 grammatical errors in the 'DaVinci Code' when I read it. And that book was purportedly edited numerous times by the cream of the crop. As a matter of fact [every] book I've ever read I've found errors in, from Jules Verne to C.S. Lewis to the infamous New York Times best sellers like James Patterson.

The compulsion/obsession to redo, reiterate, reconstruct, or refashion, over and over and over and over to satisfy some personal intellectual itch, dillutes the purity of original intent I'm convinced. You can take a thing beautifully birthed from the heart, in clarity and purity, and muck it up with the mind in an effort to 'perfect' it. A bit like chasing after the wind to me. But it won't keep people from trying. Honest work here, Kent, written with an open heart. Holiday blessings ...

You are the poet laureate of our times. C'est magnifique!

I really like this one my friend..you did not abandon it
budd