The holiday was over, and the Writer’s Section at Socotra House was talking about the overthrow of the United States government the other day. Oh, heck. We talk about it all the time, since it already happened. Splash had found a site called “Legal Insight.” It talked about it in a piece published just before […]

It is the anniversary of something that happened 103 years ago today. It happened in a rail car in a forest not far from a line of deep trenches that ran from the North Sea to the mountains of Switzerland. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the […]

(Socotras, circa 1930) You can imagine the Writer’s Section at Socotra House is attentive to the day. Tomorrow is the celebration of the end of World War One, expanded to honor those who served in that conflict, and later, considering what followed, the service of many in the conflicts that transpired to date. And a […]

The mountain moving at Refuge Farm continues in a period of transition. The Writer’s Section worked on the Weather Report for this week, attempting to assess the aftermath of the climate crisis engagements at the G20 Meeting in Rome, and the COP26 UN deliberations which will not conclude until Friday. Dropping into the fray was […]

It might just be easier to call us the Ghost People. It seemed to fit this morning. Splash made the best of his Friday night, and accordingly saved his worst for us on Saturday morning. He apparently stopped for a brief rest last night against that nice solid pine tree on the way from the […]