Original poetry, essays, and cultural reflections.
Tragedy & Hope, by Carroll Quigley Tragedy & Hope is heavy reading, both literally and figuratively. It’s 1,311 pages of dense, detailed world history, covering events from roughly the mid-1800’s to 1965, with no graphics and only two brief footnotes.…
THE FIELDS I was playing croquet Outside the other day, With the senior league, Everyone wearing white, Limbs lithe, wrinkled but alive, Fending fatigue, The weight of sultry Sarasota air, With the sun now falling, much easier to bear. Next…
WAR I am the only one alone. The others in my kingdom Have heraldry and always Three comrades at their side. Although the Court Jesters Have only each other. But I alone am alone, always alone, In a dungeon, in…
The Creature from Jekyll Island, A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin “A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army.” “We must…
ESCAPE ARTIST The sea surrounds me, Deep, dark, and cold, So black. Blending into the starless sky. I drift in silence, alone and calm, After the scrape of keel on stone. Then suddenly A piteous plea, A sound from someone…