Apologetics for Retreat

I am banking on the title justifying/gilding the following ramblings
(and the squid adds a certain, something extra):

Well, it has been a healthy pause in posting.  I have been thinking that it was a retreat, but as I contemplate the olive in the bottom of my beverage, I am confident that the return to writing is the true double-back, regroup, and rally.  My hope is not to recover lost ground but to move along a different path.  I believe that this withdrawal *ahem* break has allowed for a more directional perspective.  Mainly, I am pretty smitten with the Pacific Northwest.  Before, I was making work while living here; now, location is a perspective and starting point in any project--- the jump from environment to habitat, if that makes any sense.

So, different things coming and that is as much of an explanation as I can articulate with any degree of sober conviction.  If the aforementioned didn't pass muster for Apologetics, then you can take it up with my olive.