Captian's Log Thoughts on Joe vs. Don 26 Jun 2020 It came into my mind today that the big, approaching political question of Joe vs Don has symbolic undertones. It is not merely a question of who should hold the…
Captian's Log The Truth Will Set You Free 20 Jun 2020 We have all, at times I think, had this experience: We have been lectured to by someone who knows less than we do. It is frustrating, and it is often…
Captian's Log Can We Change the World? 16 Jun 2020 I heard a question today: Can we make the world better? I was stymied. I found I could not give a yes or no answer. I did, however, know that…
Captian's Log Short Poem: The Hills 6 Jun 2020 The hills were dark and wide, and clothed with firs of green. The mountains, distant, strong, were ghosts against the sky. And who beheld it all? Or who stood in…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Hope of Truth 4 Jun 2020 The song is ever playing, ever sung, its lyrics at the tip of every tongue, yet never do we know quite what we say, nor ever do we see what’s…
Captian's Log Poem: Still 27 May 2020 Immortal in this mortal world, forever I must flee, so with my sails ever unfurled I run away from thee. Your dragnet I always escape, though it leaves scars on…
Captian's Log Fear and Slavery 6 May 2020 Two of my all time favorite movies are The Matrix and The Truman Show. Now, for anyone who doesn’t know, these are both based off of very similar premises: They…
Captian's Log Poem: I Stopped 29 Apr 2020 Please Read: I Stopped So, I've been enjoying the Romantics, one of my early loves in literature. At a young age, I remember doing a project of Wordsworth, an introduction…
Captian's Log Poem: The Fall 6 Apr 2020 They hated the truth, so they shattered the mirror. They loved their own lies, so they cut off their ears. They burned all the books, so the children can’t read.…
Captian's Log Rambling Thoughts Regarding Truth 3 Apr 2020 To conclude from the observation of our colored spectacles, our disparate perspectives, that we are somehow incapable of comprehending objective truth, is first a self-contradictory claim—to say that knowledge of…