We appreciate that there are some who rely on current commentary from the Creative Section at Socotra House, LLC, so here it is as we have some monumental developments in our fifteen-minutecounties.

So, the War is doing OK, the was just announced “open” by somebody in Tehran, and things are breaking today, but things also could go sideways. So far, brilliant.

Politics: a swirl of exposures that makes us question how things work. And why. Also more news of a firearm brandishing incident involving an ICE agent.

Whew. Anyway, back to the neighborhood developments in Arlington. All of the Boomers at least worked over there, in the monumental part of town and all the Zoomers work around and in it. That is why what is going on has County Planning Commission and personal issues.

The biggest of those- at the moment- is the new proposed monument. It is intended, proponents say, to commemorate the 250th Anniversary. The elements of scale aren’t apparent in the controversy over gilded lions and statues, so the lead graphic includes a smaller inset to show what it would actually look like in perspective, The scope doesn’t include the low green hill lifting up to stately Arlington House.

So, those of us planning on extended stays there are generally OK with something heroic in monuments. There is even a historical argument for it being part of Pierre L’Enfant’s original scheme for our scheming city. He thought there should be arches on the three water junctions into Washington’s city of governance and union:

Temperatures in DELMARVA will scrape the low nineties today. so it will be entertaining to watch the diplomatic dancing in which there appears to be real progress with disarming Hezbollah and establishing a legitimate government with peace on the Isreali border. The Blockade seems to be holding and the US holds the advantage in being able to maintain it for an extended, though expensive period.

Iranian options now are very limited and time brings permanent damage to their national infrastructure.

We’ll keep an eye on the monuments for you!

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