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April 26, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: America at the polls poles (anti)podes

Editor’s Note: Marlow confided to us at Socotra House that he has been ‘diddling’ (publisher’s technical term for fine-tuning subtle rhetoric and smoothing flourishes) with this piece for some time. Given the bemusing state of affairs abroad and here at home, we were interested in his take on things delivered from his perch above the […]

April 25, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Independence Must Start Now

Independence is lovely idea. But it’s tough to achieve. And sometimes no one wants to pay for it. The nations of Europe insist that they are, in fact independent. Yet, with a large chunk of their oil and gas coming from Russia, several European countries have recently found that they didn’t want to really pay […]

April 25, 2022 Vic Socotra

ANZAC Day

This is short, unlike the usual blather from Socotra House LLC. The Writer’s Section gathered to start a new week and to mark a special day of observance for the young men of the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps, the famed ANZACs. Some of us have children who have observed the Day they celebrate on Australia […]

April 24, 2022 Vic Socotra

The Sounds of Spring

Splash was up early and by the Fire Ring as the first explosives of the morning began to echo up the gentle canyon leading to Mount Pony. It was a salute to the extended rumble of yesterday at the angle of advance for two Armies on successive years. One was headed north to Pennsylvania and […]

April 23, 2022 Vic Socotra

Member Appreciation Day

Joy in the morning! Member Appreciation Day Capital Wing Commemorative Air Force It was one of those magnificent Spring days in the Piedmont of Virginia. Light puffy clouds in a brilliant blue morning. A perfect time to roll up Rt 29 to the T.I. Martin Regional Air Field and take in some of the great […]

April 23, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias and His Muse: A Sunken Warship

Half her crew are fallen, Now forever below, asleep, A once great warship lies; In waters dark and deep. Badly burned and broken, No more to see the sun, No more port-calls, no more honors, Her days of glory done. No more shall she strike awe, No more will she terrify some foe, Now she’s […]

April 22, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Slow Learner

That we were happy to be alive under any circumstances was the point growing up during the 50s. We were told to be so by our pandemic, world war and depression weary folks. Sometimes we were distracted and drove ourselves into a ditch and got severely bounced around, nearly buying the farm — missing a […]

April 21, 2022 Vic Socotra

The Emergency Emergency

The word this morning was that the Russians had fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile. It is supposed to be a new model of the old SS-18 rocket NATO called the “SATAN.” Apparently the Russians have another name for it. The experts said it was a signal directed by Mr. Putin to demonstrate his government’s […]

April 20, 2022 Vic Socotra

Weather Report: War and the World

The Fire Ring was smiling, unusual on a Wednesday. Smiles are normally reserved to sometime after the luncheon break, when the future of this day is pretty much set and the morning bright with promise is relegated to the past. The best we can normally muster at the meeting is to savor the warmth of […]