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October 6, 2021 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Eggs and Sausage

Eggs and Sausage  But I Still Want a Burgundy Editor’s Note: There was mild chaos left over today at Refuge Farm, with family sadness on the one hand, and five working parties of skilled and ebullient people laboring to bring order to the outbuildings and rationality to infrastructure: plumbing, electrical and HVAC. Stop me if […]

October 6, 2021 Vic Socotra

The Bombs

A shipmate sent along a remarkable link to a set of pictures I had never seen before. They are images of the weapons used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and delivered by B-29 long-range bombers operating from Tinian Atoll in 1945. At one time classified “Top Secret,” they now open a window on horror as a […]

October 5, 2021 Vic Socotra

The Circle is Smaller

(A picture of the living family, circa 1977. The balance has now shifted to the other shore. Bill, Betty and now daughter Ann are getting it prepared for our reunion, when it comes. Angie the White Dog will ensure there is exuberance in the life everlasting). I rose this morning at the usual bridge from […]

October 4, 2021 Vic Socotra

Arrias: How Much Does it Cost?

Congress is struggling to pass a budget. President Biden, with a Democratic House and Democratic Senate, still hasn’t passed a budget or the huge infrastructure bill, with several key senators balking at this huge bill; they’ve good cause to balk. The story now coming out of Washington, both the Speaker’s office and the White House, […]

October 4, 2021 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Smokies Trippin’

Editor’s Note: We had scrambled dreams in our night at Refuge Farm. My sister’s lovely daughter traveled to be with her. My brother, stalwart that he is, dropped his affairs in New England, and made it to Alaska to be with our sister last night. “Telling stories,” were the words he used to sum up […]

October 3, 2021 Vic Socotra

Sunday Story

It is a lovely cool morning in Virginia’s Piedmont. The blue skies of heaven have a slight tinge of dust down near the horizon line. There had been a plan to tell a story this morning about some of the happenings on The Hill, but reality intruded with a call from family traveling on a […]

October 2, 2021 Vic Socotra

Losing Defense?

We had a joyous New Year’s day down on The Farm. Many folks across this broad and fertile land managed to pass it by without a great deal of emotion. The Writer’s Section at Socotra House took it with aplomb. There used to be a party held by the Office of Management and Budget people […]

October 1, 2021 Vic Socotra

Year of the Tiger

I almost put “2022” in the date above, because at the stroke of midnight last night we entered into bold new temporal territory: we have left the sodden wreckage of Fiscal 2021 behind, and entered into Fiscal 2022 without a budget! But of course I am getting ahead of myself, just like the Budget. Here […]

October 1, 2021 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Danse Macabre

Editor’s Note: For those who follow the antics on Capitol Hill, this is a dizzying morning. We think, after all the travail and rhetoric, that nothing except a “Continuing Resolution” made it across the Magic Minute when the old year died and the new one leapt into our collective consciousness. We are in “Fiscal 2022” […]