Author: Vic Socotra

The Summer to Come

So, this is the Friday morning to try to close out another breathtaking week. Well, if it were actually before noon and you were breathing when it started. Anyway, that is the context for why Splash grunted as he sat down under the brilliant blue skies that seemed to have an unexpected density. The air […]

Absentee in Person

There is a lot of discussion about elections these days. Some of it happens around the Fire Ring at Refuge Farm, and none of it is approved for release because it could be used for partisan purposes. Some aspects of the issues do appear reasonable fr discussion. Our regular participant Loma used to live in […]

Life & Island Times: We, They, Us, Them

We call out and they claim to be the answer We are the wishers, and they our fulfilment We are the night, and they the day What else? It is perfect enough It is perfectly complete Us and them What more . . . Strange, how we suffer in spite of this But they don’t […]

Weather Report: Changing People’s Lives!

So, it was the Weekly Forecast meeting at the Fire Ring. It was a delicate one, since we are committed to good order and a certain amount of discipline while under the watchful eye of our attorney. Her role is keeping us out of trouble. Our commitment is to avoid all the partisan fury swirling […]

Amending Prohibition

There is a fair amount of confused excitement out here in the Country. In fact, there is enough of it that Amanda, our watch-Attorney, was moved to get on the Chairman’s calendar to seek some relief. Apparently some of his Writer’s Section, attempting to bridge the wide gap in coverage, have been getting information from […]

Arrias: A Crises When Needed

The idea of using a crisis to make decisions that would otherwise never be allowed is not new. Kings and pharaohs and emperors of all stripes have been doing such things for millennia. Some have gone so far as to generate crises in order to provide the opportunity to “solve the crisis” and in solving […]

“Voyage to the CROSSROADS” Goes Live!

Gentle Readers, There is some real excitement at Refuge Farm on this bright new week! A new book has been issued from Socotra House LLC! It is one that encompasses a real and poignant sea story coupled with the awful consequences of Atomic Age technology. It came to us in a curious manner, and it […]

Life & Island Times: Savannah Trains of Thought

When I stop for a train at an in-town Savannah RR crossing near our home, I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering, those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up slowly rolling by, and I get quiet inside. I get what other men get from other things. I […]