Captian's Log Rambling Thoughts About My Face 29 Mar 2020 I have often given my blog over to meditations on the morose. I am no prophet, but one certainty I proclaim is death. It is the one inescapable fact. You…
Captian's Log Poem: Again 15 Jan 2020 The melting, blue snow of a dying day, the aborted winter’s passing away the cascading rain falling down on me and the dark of night’s a swelling black sea All…
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…