The Earth Noticed
I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would cry out. - Luke 19:40 The stones noticed first. Down where nothing is named, they warmed a little, not from fire, just from being near to something.
Catalog Dreams and Charlie Brown Nights
'Tis the Season on Lincoln Street Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more. - Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! It always began with the thud of the Sears catalog on the kitchen table, thick enough to stop a bullet, and filled with more dreams than the average nine-year-old had the emotional maturity to handle.
A MODERN PELOPONNESIAN WAR
A MODERN PELOPONNESIAN WAR Systemic Rivalry, Power Transitions, and the Persistence of Thucydidean Conflict A Monograph by GBS jr 2018 Preface This essay began many years ago as a college class report I wrote in 1983, when the Cold War still defined the shape of the world and its anxieties.
