Wind is howling in the trees, Gray sky above, clouds skid past, Rain showers move across the swamp, The dogs settle in for the coming blast. Weather comes and weather goes, Too warm, too cold too wet, too dry, Despite protests to the contrary, We really don’t know why. A new ice age approaches, A […]

Barking, growling, running about, I guess it’s time to rise, Puppies playing in the dawn, I leave my dreams with several sighs. She was so close, I held her hand, We walked, we almost kissed, Almost kissed as we danced, Now gone, and she is missed. Walk the dogs, then feed them, Go about my […]

A few weeks ago I was driving across New England, and found myself among some mountains. I hadn’t been on that particular road in a number of years and I was struck by how the once beautiful mountain scenery was now cluttered up with towering windmills, each several hundred feet high. It had snowed just […]

Author’s Note: Brilliant crescent moon, and Venus popping up – it was 14 here… And there really was a lone owl hooting away… Perhaps that was my Muse…which somehow led to thoughts of being very warm, in tropic climes… – Arrias My Dream A brilliant crescent Moon, under a lapis sky, Venus rising in the […]

Words have meaning. And we should mean what we say. And honor what we say we will do. And at the same time, we need to let others say what they mean. That can present a bit of a conundrum sometimes. Ronald Reagan used to tell the joke about the American and the Soviet talking […]

Another winter day, gray and cold, Much like any other, Yet things are stirring round the globe, Could a nation – or two – soon be smothered? Troop ships move, trains roll out, Heated words exchanged, Would be allies acquiesce, Might one leader be deranged? Could incompetence and senility Combine as we have seen before? […]

Consider the state of the world: Over the next several weeks President Putin of Russia is going to be granted some sort of substantive geopolitical concessions by the Ukraine government, or NATO, or both, or he will initiate some sort of combat operations and attempt to force the concessions, or he will be so politically […]

Editor’s Note: Snow visited the Dismal Swamp with a sweep of moist tropical air. colliding with Canada’s frozen gusts. It caused the Muse to visit Arrias. Higher in the Piedmont, what was snow has been transformed by a dagger of adamant chill into adamant ice. The enforced solitude of the elements has produced activity from […]

We greet the day under a lapis sky, full moon slowly sets, Pale gold line in the east, around me trees – looming silhouettes. Frozen grass crunches underfoot, the dogs search for a scent, But nary a smell, nary a sound to disturb the firmament. The Sun now rising, above, the stars begin to fade, […]

“What now?” Adolph Hitler asked this to his foreign minister, late morning, September 3rd, 1939, in response to the British government statement that a state of war would exist as of 11AM if the Germans hadn’t begun to withdraw from Poland. His bluff had failed, World War II had begun. Hitler was not pleased. Sometimes […]