Author: vicSocotra

Kinetic COVID Cloud

ATMOSPHERIC ALERT BULLETIN KINETIC COVID CLOUD™ Listening for the Next Signal It is Monday and everyone was back. Which is to say, the Boomers who have camped out in the 6th Floor transient suite were down for fresh warm bagels, fruit cups and sausage rolls in the conference room. Dierdre had some mystery going in […]

War, Faith & Pastrami

Legal finished sealing up a busy week of topics Saturday afternoon. The war is big, of course, and it has now entered its third week with American heavy bombers reportedly able to roam at will in the skies over Iran. Civilians have been warned by both sides to stay indoors. That has produced some interesting […]

Pi Day, (3.14), Old Charts, and Moving Dirt

Arlington / Socotra House PI DAY! 3.14 Pi Day began in 1988, when physicist Larry Shaw organized the first celebration at the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco. The date — March 14 (3.14) — honors the mathematical constant π, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Its digits continue infinitely without repeating, […]

End of Empire With Decent Soup

There are enough stories this morning that we have quite run out of fingers. As our Boomers are a group of world ramblers, we were always sensitive to how people lived overseas. When moving through other societies we tried not to intrude too far into what their culture accepted as normal. The idea was to […]

Three Strikes and You’re…

(This is an image of a fellow named Bairon Hernandez, produced through police reporting. Our interns spent more time removing the NYPD markings than digging into his history. They assumed it was bad. Which is what started their contribution.) Miles asked the interns to take a look. It was another in a continuing string of […]

Arrias and his Muse: Bone

 Mullah, son of a Mullah, He’s the new big man in town, Though it seems to be starting slow, Rumor has it he’s wearing a frown. Seems he was near his pappy, At least according to an anonymous reporter, And one of the early airstrikes Made him a foot shorter… He no longer has an […]

Spring Unfolds at The Trillium

It is 83 degrees yesterday at The Trillium, home of “Vibrant Senior Living” in the posh new building that looks down on what was Farmer Tyson’s Corner. Miles had Boomrs, Zoomers and Tweeners down on the benches greeting residents and their visitors with Springtime cheer. Concierge Christian and Old Jim were on patrol around the […]

Waning Gibbous Into Spring

Spring is breaking early along the Potomac. Across the river, the Washington Post promises to explain the Middle East to us again. David Ignatius and Jason Rezaian will hold forth this week on what Iran means today. We could walk over to the Post HQ on K Street and listen, as if the paper still […]

Waning Gibbous Into Spring

Spring is breaking early along the Potomac. Across the river, the Washington Post promises to explain the Middle East to us again. David Ignatius and Jason Rezaian will hold forth this week on what Iran means today. We could walk over to the Post HQ on K Street and listen, as if the paper still […]

Arrias Sends: A Sonnet for Spring

The great gray monsters now covered in red, A million little buds on every tree, For in an instant glum winter has fled, Now the world is renewed for all to see. Suddenly a riot of color thrills, Whites, brilliant reds, and there a neon pink, Cherry trees, dogwoods and yellow daffodils, The mind spins! […]