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January 27, 2022 Vic Socotra

Bright and Un-Ironic

This would normally be a great day to puff up and start re-hashing some of the news of just the last couple days. Or hours, if one was particular about the topic. Since we have already been warned that expressing opinions about this in the retired/annuitant community could subject us to criminal charges, we naturally […]

January 27, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Cold Morning…My Muse

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 […]

January 26, 2022 Vic Socotra

Weather Report

A challenging morning on all fronts under clear chill Piedmont skies. The latest thrust of arctic air has visited, with the little sensor outside the kitchen window reading an even dozen at first reading: “12.” Splash was aware of the cold front, and had established a warm spot indoors. Except for that small gap at […]

January 26, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Roma

Editor’s Note: We were thinking about using little Romulus, Michigan, in the alphabet cities series, but Marlow has a better idea this morning. Some of us wound up in Rome frequently during the Balkan crisis- well, an older Balkan crisis- and the grim business to the East of a city that once ruled it all. […]

January 25, 2022 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Antidote

Author’s Note: With all the social media upset, domestic political turmoil and winds of war sweeping the country, I decided to share some old memories of an antidote that still serves me and my g-g-generation well. -Marlow 25 January 2022 Antidote And then Motor Town music happened to me. My hometown never hosted big rock […]

January 25, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Enemies and Oath-Breakers

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 […]

January 25, 2022 Vic Socotra

The Muse of Arrias: War Up On The Steppe

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? […]

January 24, 2022 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Truth and Consequences

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 […]

January 23, 2022 Vic Socotra

Fun With Numbers

(The Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill advances from Congress for signing at the White House). We tend to be a little contemplative on Sunday mornings. You know how that goes. Saturday nights express relief that another week has passed without disaster. Or at least complete disaster. We were arguing about numbers this morning, but not in a […]