There was a controversy that started when some of us were awake. It involved concerts held in the early 1970s, or events in a sea of the miasma of a half century of active life. There was a memory of a fellow named Rod Stewart, whose face framed with famous unruly hair appeared in the […]

Dear Gentle Readers, The Fire Ring is damp this morning and the Usual Suspects instead gathered in the Bunk House for fresh and richly brewed Chock Full o’ Nuts and idle banter. Splash provided one of the “Letters to the Editor” from the Coffee Company, which protested our misspelling a week or more ago, and […]

We have to do the Weather Report this week, and it looks a bit like the local forecast for last night. Maybe Thunderstorms, according to the Lady in Red on the flatscreen. She was taking about local weather in Washington, which we are supposed to believe is something universal, and ‘Maybe’ it is. There are […]

We are aware that times require change. For example, in ordinary correspondence, the footnotes now come first, in an effort to deflect potential consequences of a misunderstanding in meaning. We have tried to explain that as art of a phenomenon in which the meaning of former universally accepted meanings is change in mid-debate, and the […]

Oh, how the anniversaries pass! We have had a week of them. The struggle at Midway Island was almost complete 80 years ago. We were surprised to see that two aviators from that day were honored- as still-living men- on the decks of a ship named to commemorate the victory. Some of us sailed in […]

A glorious Piedmont day out there, two in a row! There is not quite the same unbridled joy in the gentle caress of a warming waft of air under the limitless blue of the sky and the golden radiance of our solar disc whose welcome rays slowly illuminated the south end of the bunk house, […]

(The south pastures in their summer glory. Mermaids and heavenly discs crafted here, evoking the magic of oceans we sailed. A smile beneath a beret in Marseilles, or a view of a Monument in silhouette along a Wall. A day of blessings!) We could start with the usual insightful liturgy on the lunacy abroad in […]