I began Heidi Li's Potpourri as an alternative to cluttering friends' email in-boxes with my thoughts and observations about the 2007-08 Democratic primary season and my support for Senator Clinton's bid for the Party's nomination. Gradually, I have expanded the scope of the writing here to go beyond Senator Clinton's candidacy and to consider progressivism and its present demands. To my delight and surprise, I have ended up with a fairly large number of regular readers, most of whom I know only through this channel. I began this Potpourri, assuming that it would end in the summer and then that it would end after the election.  I plan to continue the site. But now I must put it on a different pace, to attend to matters that I had assumed would begin receiving my full attention months ago. If you subscribe to the blog, you'll automatically know when there are new posts. If you are a person who has been checking in regularly, I hope you will still stop by from time to time. The most important thing: slowing the pace of writing here is NOT to be taken as acceptance of the current state of affairs in this country's politics. Indeed quite the opposite: the lessons I have learned from this election season have made me realize that my own efforts toward a more just politics will, like so many other people's, have to continue indefinitely. We are in a marathon, not a sprint. As we all keep running, I look forward to sharing my thoughts with others who chose to visit Heidi Li's Potpourri, even if content is added to it more gradually than has been the case to date.