so, no, this post doesn't really have anything much to do with pflügen, except that it's a cool german word. The way I understand it though, it has something to do with plowing...and, bear with me here...i was thinking about that William Blake line from the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, from the Proverbs of Hell, "Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead." And it seems good enough advice. So that's what I'm doing now...driving and, i guess, to a lesser extent--plowing. So I guess this really was about "pflügen."