Civilizations inevitably have a rise, a golden age, and a fall.  The most famous documented in literature is the story of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, as Odoacer of the Goths determined to remove the last vestiges of the seats of power of the empire from its thousand year presence in […]... Read More

  Like a tsunami wave, the current Corona virus pandemic has swept unimpeded across countries, oceans, and continents upending the comfortable cultural patterns of civilization and pointing dead center at the world’s economic stability.  The pace and severity of the virus spread has placed many countries under siege, and the public willingness to accede to […]... Read More

  The enormous central molten core of the planet Earth knows not of our trivial machinations on the surface of this spaceship through time, but has served us without fail.  Pulled at by the huge forces of gravity, molten iron simultaneously pulled crushed and surged under impossible pressures,  sends out streams of convection currents created […]... Read More

A respite from this blog for a few weeks to recharge my creative juices hasn’t made the world seem to be an any more enlightened place.  We are seeing across the world a progression in dissonance and downright strife when anything short of a passive acceptance of another’s world view is expressed.  Express free speech […]... Read More