I have been informed I should appease the visitors of this repository – whom I must assume includes you – with a more transparent flow of information regarding the particularly of my day to day activities.

I feel your reading of the mundane particulars of each day might send you to an early slumber, so I shall contain myself to notes relevant only to the subject of this – I believe it is termed – “website”.

Two days ago, not three hours following my regular weekly visit to the cemetery – a ritual I insist on maintaining above all even after all these years since Melissa’s passing and the sometimes intrusive advice of those pertaining to have my interests at heart – I received an unexpected note.

It reeked of cheap perfume and was delivered by hand by an unwashed person – by the imprints upon it of smudged fingerprints and what appeared to be coal dust, which, I must add, whomever it was had managed to leave such stains upon the outside of my door. The note requested my presence at a gathering of reputed spiritual practitioners undergoing examination by a pseudo-scientific group referring to themselves as the Order for the Preservation of Scientific Proof. I was astonished! This was a request for me to protect a spiritualist from the men of science! The writer of the note wished for me to adjudicate to see the science was valid and void of debunking trickery.

Alas, it is true! Where the charlatan will take broad measures to mask her deceptive acts in the promotion of her so-called gifts, so the men of pseudo-science may just as frequently employ the antithesis of scientific experimentation by deliberating the outcome and using the experiment to prove the deliberation regardless of the process’ scientific merit.

The proceedings shall be outlined in a future entry in this journal. Let this note be a reminder that deception and charlatanism may be found in the most unlikely of places, particularly where self gain is sought and the spoils of notoriety are so eagerly devoured. Trust no one.

M. Keynes