Captian's Log Ravings: Going Mad 30 Mar 2021 Whatever comes, it comes, whatever goes, it goes, but whatever stays, it will not stay forever. The impermanence of all loves, of all hates, of all desires, flowing like a…
Captian's Log 2021: Beginning 1 Jan 202130 Dec 2020 Welcome 2021! Everything is going to be . . . exactly the same. Such is life. The world isn't going to change. There will always be wars and famine and…
Captian's Log The Day Is Gone 15 Dec 2020 After the day is gone, and the night's shadows caress the hills, I sit contemplatively in the quiet darkness. How sweet the dreams of sleep seem to me, yet I…
Captian's Log Poem: I Fear To Give You All 22 Nov 2020 I fear to give you all, and from my own incisions hide.So how can I obey your call? I said I would, I tried,but I, so unaware, I do not…
Captian's Log Essay: Bookends 10 Jul 2020 Once upon a time . . . I love that phrase. It brings to mind all the gentle wonder of childhood, all the sweet imaginings of boyhood, and, for me,…
Captian's Log Poem: Will-O-Wisp 23 Jun 2020 The haunting glow there through the mist —so quickly fading out of sight— of what, pray tell, does it consist? What be this strange and eerie light? A will-o-wisp, I’m…
Captian's Log The Armor of God 29 Nov 201929 Nov 2019 Here is a visual representation of the book of Ephesians. I am not an artist nor the son of an artist, but I admit to having drawn this image. Please…
Captian's Log Hypocrisy, Faith, Memes, and Language 21 Dec 201821 Dec 2018 Well, the man told me to write about hypocrisy. It seemed important to him as he repeated the idea throughout our conversation today. I had mentioned how I like to…
Captian's Log September 11th: Never Forget 11 Sep 2018 In reading a great American poet named Anne Bradstreet, I am sore reminded our hope is not built upon castles and bulwarks, or upon any of these passing shadows, and…
Captian's Log I Will Be a Tree 11 Aug 2018 I will be a tree and not some mean bundle of sticks. I am at least a seed, and I will try to grow. I will join my roots into…