(USAID Director Samantha Power) The Writer’s Section was wrestling with the Weather Report for this week. The normal process is to try to distill the topics that are growing or diminishing, see how they fit together and how the various narratives about what they want us to believe is “news,” if it fits the Agenda. […]

The crowd was unruly at the Fire Ring this morning. You know why. It is Victory Day. Not one of ours, at least in current parlance. We helped Russia, then known by another name, to defeat a malignant government then located in the capital of one of our NATO Alliance partners. Obviously, thing were a […]

It is a tough morning getting ready for what is to come. It I supposed to be a day of joy to celebrate the Human miracle only mothers can deliver. In the background, the curious business of protestors outside the personal residences of Supreme Court Justices, by people who are protesting for the right of […]

(Betty Ann Foley, later Betty Foley Reddig, 1975). These are the Foley girls as mothers, circa 1953. The cousins are toddlers. Mom and I are in the middle. The Sisters have got their start out of the little River town where they were born, and they all accomplished something based on a drive as strong […]

The Writers Section was forced by the elemental power of gray rain from their usual place by the Fire Ring down behind the barn. The gray skies provided one of the motivational spirits in the circle. A couple members looked a bit under the weather, which is to say that it was the same weather […]

So, the crowd was pleased with this week’s Weather Report, a snippet compilation of some of the stuff going on around the world in which we are going to have to live. Live together, if that is possible. The Chairman is adamant that we should not sink into a partisan account of the extraordinary events. […]

Rocket had a docket, ready to roll this morning. It was a family thing- an image of his father, slim and tall, in front of something he had desgined and was attempting to sell to America on behalf of a hard working and visionary company run by a guy of the same stripe. It was […]

DeMille cancelled the production meeting this morning. It is normally a simple process that follows a certain biologic imperative. Eyes open. Latrine visited after industrial-grade percolator is started in the Bunk House kitchenette. If devices had been suitable charged in the hours of darkness- a process reliant on local access to the regional power grid- […]

(The interior of the al Firdos District Command and Control (C3) Bunker in Baghdad on the second anniversary of the strike. The big hole in the roof was opened up by one of the two Guided Bomb Units (GBU-27 PAVEWAY III laser-guided munitions) on Feb 13, 1991. The impeccably executed strike we learned the next […]

DeMille had to add a meeting to the weekend schedule. Sundays are important, since the regular routine is at odds with a day our Western civilization has traditionally devoted to devotional stuff. You know, the whole getting cleaned up, properly dressed, and traveling to gatherings in which the topic of eternity and the role of […]