Gentle Readers, I beg your forgiveness for this short departure from traditional Daily Socotra format and braggadocio. If you take a short look at the image of USS Nimitz (CVN-68) above you will get a hint of her vastness. Forgive her the running rust on her elevator bays. That is a symptom of a different […]

Climb on board, Shipmates! The wait is done, the times are ripe and we can use a little joy! We were engaged in folding things up just as nature was opening them wide! You can see the buds full and ready to pop at the invitation of the Cross that stands tall on the west […]

Today featured a visit for the ages! It was one that evoked the spirit of Saint Patrick’s Days spent with comrades in distant places with a sense of solidarity and will. It is hard to compare unless you have shared some over the 47 years since I first saw Bronco in his crisp green Nomex […]

It is a Sunday here at the Woodbine Rehab facility in Alexandria, so only the regular staff is doing their basic maintenance for the seniors and disabled crowd held here. No Physical or Occupational Therapists in evidence so a sort of industrial calm is present on this floor with no loudspeaker announcements to break the […]

There could be a clarion call this morning about the Big Speech scheduled to be issued from the White House later today. It is an unusual one, since it resembles a state of the Union in a fashion unseen in 130 years sonce a non-consecutive President addressed both Houses of Congress with margins of majoity […]

No we aren’t there, though we wish we were. That is Seoul with the gate to the old city wall in 1980 and the big pivot from pirate days to asking Jane to marry and build a family. She was tired of what she was doing and said “Yes,” and then the real magic of […]

Gentle Readers, you already got the Saturday stuff out of you systems, or at least the weekend parts that carried the digits about international crisis de jour with that little fellow in the smudged sweat clothes and the Holy Father apparent recovery from influenza. Accordingly, we will limit this to the apparently recovery of Creative […]

You will hear the truculent words in some form just as we did here in Arlington. They literallly bounced off some of the marble spires here in curious directions. Mr. Trump has always been known as a linguistic stylist, but the small crowd here at our conference table listened in stunned silence to Mr. Zelensky’s […]

Splash gently put aside the large stub of the Monte Cristo cigar he has been nursing through this edition of seasonal change. The tumult is in the air above the warming river. He slid the elegant ceramic ash tray closer to the center of the conference table. He had shrugged Winter’s recent premature retreat a […]