Captian's Log Wandering 16 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 I have been walking for a long time now. It has been a long time. and my feet hurt. Sometimes I dream, sometimes, as the weariness overwhelms me, I think…
Captian's Log Please Let Me Live 11 Feb 20253 Feb 2025 I thought, perhaps, that I would dream, or if not dream, I'd think. I thought, perhaps, to make my case, or else hear some rebuke. I thought, but thinking's done;…
Captian's Log Dancer 10 Feb 20251 Feb 2025 The dancing figure, frozen in bronze, extended an arm to heaven. I could almost imagine she was alive, such was the craftsmanship; in the corner of your eye, you would…
Captian's Log A Disagreeable Kerfuffle 6 Feb 20251 Feb 2025 "I hope in time we can move past this little kerfuffle," I said, stepping over the corpse. "And in the morning light of reflection, perhaps you'll understand that these things…
Captian's Log Ghost’s Parting Sigh 2 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 We watched for you, waited for the light in the dark. For how many ages have we been longing, hoping? All dead. I am the last. Only I and these…
Captian's Log There is a Prison 1 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 “There is a prison,” I said. “Is it just?” he asked. “And he waits in darkness.” “But is it just?” “Long ago, I commended him to the guard.” “If he…
Captian's Log Morning and Night 31 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 In the cool of the night a voice, a whisper on the sands, and I heard melody in my dreams. The smoke of the fire rose and twisted in the…
Captian's Log What Dreams Avail the Dead 30 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 I hope the words we sang tonight while drifting down the riverside are heard again some other time, that other voices sing again the rhymes we threaded between the stars.…
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…