Captian's Log Excerpt: Hukam in Sikhism 25 Oct 2019 (Below is an excerpt of an essay I worked on regarding different religions. It's not my best, but I am tired. Goodnight). In Sikhism, there is a concept referred to…
Captian's Log Sound of Silence 24 May 2019 There are sad refrains in a life, repeated bars which bring no joy to hear. I knew a mythical creature called a griffin. I had little love for this beast,…
Captian's Log Poem: Here Lies. . . 13 May 2019 Please read: Here Lies. . . I dreamed last night of pleasure. How bleak, it seems, that only in my dreams I pleasure seek, desire good, and long for you. I…
Captian's Log One Step at a Time 23 Mar 2019 He shouts the questions into the dark surrounding, into the ever-present dark which follows him into the day or the night, its oppressive presence suffocating him week by week, year…
Captian's Log Lunacy 19 Mar 2019 I want to belong, but the light is fading. All around me friends hug each other; I shake hands. I go for the door. Outside is silence. The moon governs…
Captian's Log Daydream: Masks 7 Mar 2019 “The masks make us their slaves. They wear us.” The youth looked into the cut out eyes of the bandana he’d home-brewed into a disguise. Did they look back into…
Captian's Log The Damned’s Perspective 17 Feb 2019 C. S. Lewis wrote: "I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd…
Captian's Log Live On 10 Dec 2018 Someone I know committed suicide. He was a science teacher, and his classes were wonderful. I do not remember him well, but remember looking forward to seeing him, to learning…
Captian's Log Closed Door 28 Nov 2018 It was he finally closed the door. It had been his habit, these last fifteen years, to wedge a little wood under his door so that it would stay open…