Captian's Log Sonnet: The Truth 21 Oct 2020 Please Read: The Truth Shall I choose what I love or what is true? How can a man the former hope to take when what he's always longed for is…
Captian's Log Poem: The Fool’s Dream 20 Oct 2020 I dreamt a pleasant thing,but had bitter reaping.I spoke a lovely word,but now my tongue is slurred. I thought I sought the truth,I'd hoped to find the proof;I sought only…
Captian's Log Poem: Words 10 Oct 2020 The words are fading now like shadows at the light;the vision's passing fast, and I've no time to write.I see them there before my eyes, I see them in my…
Captian's Log Short: Light 5 Sep 2020 I just turned and walked away. My feet hurt under me, aching as they pressed into the pavement. I shoved my hands into my pockets and tried to hold back…
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 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…
