The Great Dementia

We fall and forget more than we once could explain, Searching  for a sign or phrase to remind  our hazy brains, We should beware trumpets bellowing to proclaim, The arrival to our era’s great error and his killing reign. Feeble opposing deliberations between factions follow, Too late come the arguments that anyways fall hollow, Like …

Chipmunk’s Gambit

When I let Cinco out the front door, He pauses at the porch steps, firmly planted on all four. Cinco surveys the garden below, Where  lilies, hydrangeas, and a rose of sharon grow. He listens for the crackle from a fallen birch leaf, And for the footfalls of tiny paws within the walls of his …

Talking With Cinco

     I love talking with my dog Cinco.  He may not understand many more words than a toddler, it is true.  But when I add his vocabulary to his reading of body language and behavior patterns, he analyzes people in a quite  sophisticated way.   I haven’t yet figured out how much he really knows.  For …

This Is Me

     Sometimes I cry while watching tv.  I can feel the progress of the tears begin at the top of my head.  My brain tissue, which is suspended in liquid, suddenly gets  infused with chemicals which flood that critical organ.   This usually occurs when something sentimental and sappy happens on the television program.  Then, as quickly …

Old Mueller

How an honest public servant nearing retirement can seem like an old and loyal dog, who is deserving of a place near the fire. I think Robert Mueller has completed his last and perhaps one of his greatest services to this country.  Watching him leave the room after testifying to the House Intelligence Committee, Mueller …

There is Hope

Nancy Pelosi wants the water to boil before she throws our black hearted red faced mobster wannabe into the pot.  But there is a limit to how hot boiling water can get.  If she fails to move when the conditions are right then she has failed the American public in our time of need.  To …

An Unhappy Medium

I have been writing Senators Corker and Alexander about once a week for months.  There are so many vital issues in front of Congress that it is no trouble finding something to write about.  My viewpoint in these letters is determinably progressive.  This means in every email that I write there is a complaint but …

An Evening Out

This is a little history behind the evening a few days ago which I wrote about with the intent to read today.  Please do not take either this introduction or what I read next too seriously.  I have been talking about events like the evening of paranoia which I wrote about, since the summer of …

Impressions

Few have seen something lovely And not wanted to share in its wonder and simplicity. You may be like Monet studying some lilies. Every seat at your table is blessed with grace, But we want more than a taste, We desire a permanent place. We would often be as a flower ourselves, So she said, …

Idle Fingertips and Final Devilish Thoughts

Trump has repeatedly referred to the Special Counsel’s investigation of Russia’s interference in our electoral process as being a, “witch hunt.”  Perhaps more importantly, Trump disputes the evidence that his campaign benefited from Putin’s sponsorship of divisive rhetoric, cleverly inserted into our national online conversations about many varied and contentious issues which are important to …