[January 2005 journal entry]
“It must be remembered that he was writing primarily for himself. . . . He communicated his work to a restricted circle, with no hope of having it published.” (A reflection on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin by his cousin Marguerite in her introductory essay to The Making of a Mind: Letters From a Soldier-Priest 1914-1919, letters he sent to her during his service as a stretcher-bearer during World War One.) The pensees (thoughts) recorded in my journal entries since 1992 have been written with no particular readers in mind and with no expectation of publication. None of what I have written has been restricted by what any particular reader/s would understand or find interesting. I fully realize that few (if any) readers may ever spend time with these thoughts. If I limited/restricted myself to writing that about which a particular readership will/can understand and care, I would/could not engage in a radical (i.e., to the root) examination of ideas.