This Spring day dawned with a reminder of seasonal malice. The breeze is brisk out on The Patio, the skies close and gray, denying the welcome warmth that appeared- briefly- in a week filled with chaos, foreign and domestic. The picture above is from a pal in a square state as a reminder of past places of unearthly beauty to balance some of the ugliness abroad in our world.

As an example? We were working on the flash point de jour, which is Iran, her proxy entities adjoining Isrel, and mutterings of nuclear issues. The use of a nuclear weapon has been a troubling topic of discussion since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A hundred weeks into that conflict, there is grinding uncertainty. The topic of immediate concern is the one to the south. The situation is depicted in garbled reporting. The immediate issue is whether the United States will permit Israel to eliminate the Hamas leadership that sparked this chapter of an ancient conflict.

The headlines this morning report Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy to the north of Israel is preparing an estimated 100 drones to strike Israel. It is a milestone in that conflict. There will be more on that matter, and shortly.

Being old timers, we were looking at the space between defeat on one of the parties and the use of WMD. We will save that for the new book in which we are attempting to follow the events of these pivotal times. Instead, we wissh to provide an exciting update untinged with terror or tragedy.

The next release from Socotra House has been percolating for several months. Our superb production team produced the “print interior” text in full final with an ominous deadline. They further threaten to add the photographs from the manuscript submission once a final review is complete. This is a milestone in the publishing process, and a gratifying one.

The subject title is “A little Traveling music.” It contains other and older milestones, like the decision to abandon our ally The Shah of Iran and permit the establishment of the theocratic state in Tehran. Then the Socotra house engagement with that crisis in 1979 and all that has followed. That it should be ready to blow apart again this morning marks another milestone.

There is more to come on that, but for this morning we will let the marvelous image of peace in a place of conflict suffice. We will review the trips to Haiti, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam and Cuba contained in the Final Proof of the new book and seal the deal on that project. Which of course we will then shamelessly flack. It is another milestone of sorts.

There will be much more to come, and many milestones to pass. Have a great weekend!

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