Captian's Log A Koan of my Own 29 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 Unfortunately, the mirror is blocking your face, and if you could stop looking at yourself, you might find that elusive stranger walking about out in the world. You hold up…
Captian's Log הבל הבלים 28 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 If everything is pointless and meaningless, why bother saying so? You feel pain? Well, isn't that a sort of meaning? You can't say "everything is meaningless" because meaningless is meaningless…
Captian's Log You’re Dead 21 Jan 202520 Jan 2025 "If you were dead, would you want to know?" I ask. The waitress had just taken our orders and menus from us, and my friend was sipping his lager while…
Captian's Log Excelsior 20 Jan 2025 We now have a president. It's strange to say. There is hope again for our country. God Kept Trump alive by a miracle; I pray this will be a new…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 17 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 You make me shiver. It is as though you have peered into my thoughts, for I saw the gods, gods of Egypt and Greece and the monsters of far distant…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 16 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 The punishment of the dead is his main theme here. He thinks they thought that justice compelled them to take almost the opposite position of the ancient Egyptians. Only the…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 15 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 "…be it not forgotten, then, that the best authorities," whom he never cites, "hold that the buried figures of their gods support the thesis that some sort of chthonic cult…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 14 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 What are dreams? I am no child. Dreams come and go. I do not hold onto them. But I too have been robbed of sleep this night and hoped for…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 13 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 Strange dreams have assaulted me this night. I fought with beasts of darkness and thunder whose evil laughter haunts me now. Their unseen faces hid some knowing smirk. I fended…
Captian's Log The Sleeping Dragon 11 Jan 2025 Well, once when I was young, I sat beside a dragon. The sleeping wyrm never knew and never came to know. His long snoring eased my mind; and the black…