5 days agoSpheres, a senryū of sorts in e minor flatSpheres: an infinity of angles, endless possibilities, perhaps even cyclic gateways, … © Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2023; all rights reserved. Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution. Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia…Senryu1 min readSenryu1 min read
Mar 19On the Day Designated Internationally to Honor MenIt’s March 19, 2023, a Sunday and a day purportedly designated internationally to honor men, but as a holiday, it’s sort of a flop. It’s not a great day for florists or restauranteurs, or for retail sales or for holiday bookings. But perhaps it’s meaningful if we take a moment…Fathers3 min readFathers3 min read
Mar 18Darker than Dark in Shades of IndigoThe deity was bored. It was lonely and bored, but the concepts were without divine context. It had been lonely and bored forever, although forever was not as long, initially as it thereafter became. Not only was there nothing to do. There was absolutely nothing. Period. And exclamation point as…Mythology2 min readMythology2 min read
Mar 18If I Only Could, I Surely Would … or Would I?After a bit over three quarters of a century, the “sounds of silence” have acquired a new meaning, one no longer political. They now represent the realization, one often addressed by many of all ages, regarding the importance of appreciating the value of solitude and self-reliance. Not because others have…Introspection3 min readIntrospection3 min read
Mar 16Thoughts on Rereading Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and DarknessI first read Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness over a half century ago. It was sort of interesting but hard to grasp. I hadn’t realized that, in large part, it was an epic poem. At the time, I’d not yet come to understand poetry. I wonder if Zelazny…Literature2 min readLiterature2 min read
Mar 15Once Again, the Ides of MarchIt’s March 15, 2023. Once again the Ides of March. Two millennia, six decades and seven years ago, more or less (given Pope Gregory’s machinations with the calendar), Gaius Iulius Caesar was assassinated by a number of the colleagues he’d pardoned multiple times, including his reputed illegitimate son, Marcus Junius…History2 min readHistory2 min read
Mar 15On the Nature of Responses to the Question “Why”?The answer to the most fundamental of questions, “why”, may be very enlightening concerning a person’s fundamental cognitive programming. Among the diverse potential responses, two are very brief, precise and telling. They are “why not” and “because. …Philosophy2 min readPhilosophy2 min read
Mar 14On the Ironic Nature of the Emerging Financial CrisisThe Biden administration’s economic policies are clearly a disaster, largely because of the administration’s insane efforts to destroy the Russian and Chinese economies, rather than concentrating on improving our own. …Finance And Banking4 min readFinance And Banking4 min read
Mar 14Reflections on AlexanderOn June 11 of this year, 2023, it will be two millennia, three centuries, four decades and six years since the death of Alexander III of Macedon, really of Macedon, Greece, Persia, Asia, and the world. …History3 min readHistory3 min read
Mar 12The Former Right to Protest, now a Restricted PrivilegeProtests in the United States, once a sacrosanct right, have become tolerable only when deemed politically correct by politicized leaders of the criminal justice system (an oxymoron) and their rubber stamp echoes in the lazy, politicized judicial system. The purported guardians of the truth and defenders of the citizenry from…Terrorism6 min readTerrorism6 min read