I wish to relate something of potential interest, that is ongoing. It is a work in progress. We are not yet to act III. We do not know the dénouement. But that is all right. We each have a story to tell. All our stories are different. To paraphrase the…

What has been bandied about recently in various news media is the notion of pardoning ex-POTUS Donald Trump. Here is one pertinent news column. It makes no pretense of being a scholarly treatise on the topic: Opinion | Yes, Pardon Trump It could help drain some of the poison in American politics.www.yahoo.com And here is a letter to the editor of ‘The Chicago Tribune’ with a…

I got to admit. When I saw this the other day, I did a double take. Whatever did it mean? What was it supposed to mean? I was brought up to believe that each of us has a guardian angel. One that stays with us from birth till death. When…

What Edward Snowden did and the convoluted path his course took thereafter is familiar to most readers. To those who may be unfamiliar, and as a reminder: In brief, Snowden worked as an NSA subcontractor in HI. While there, he discovered the extent to which the NSA was spying on…

— Satire I have a solution to the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine. It is so simple I am somewhat surprised I did not think of it before. Nor have I seen it in print. OK. On to the dénouement. Why cannot Vladmir Putin, leader of Russia, say, as…

“I’m flawed; I need grace and forgiveness.” Joshua Dressel, MO (January 6, 2022 U. S. Capitol rioter) Facts. Sometimes inconvenient, but generally worth stating. Even restating. Such as: 2 + 2 = 4. Night follows day. Day follows night. In this universe (I am not discounting the possibility of other…

“… therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne (1572–1631), “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions,” ‘Meditation XVII’ I visited the Korean Friendship Bell in Angels Gate Park in San Pedro, California recently. It is considered one of the major tourist landmarks. What is…

I lived in an Islamic country two years in the late 1960s. I have a prayer carpet in the front hallway of my house which contains deliberate flaws in its geometric pattern. Some take awhile to detect. One might want to sit awhile. Or, as some of the denizens of…

Certain events embed themselves in memory and, like images on glass, are irrevocably etched. Someone I knew well for a number of years told me this story. It did not emerge all at once, like a waterfall cascading over a dam. Rather, perhaps like the life cycle of the grasshopper…