THE TWENTY-NINTH NIGHT, THIRD PART, 30 Days Has September
The company proceeded along the eastern base of the sheer cliff rising a thousand feet above it. My arrival in the midst of Kilo’s Marines, and reaching the base of the glacis changed none of that. The fire from the other jungle inhabitants, the enemy, remained...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #61
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #61 May 11, 2020 Here they come. A couple of months ago I first discussed the potential of the coming crisis affecting the very core values and mores of the American social condition. Here they come, that...
Coronavirus (Covid19), Reflection #60
Journaling the Coronavirus (Covid19) Pandemic, Reflection #60 May 11, 2020 Airlines and Pandemic A year ago I predicted that the airlines would run into serious difficulties, all of them who currently serve America, formerly the largest and most profitable air...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #59
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #59 May 11, 2020 Hawaii. A primer for how not to enlist the support of the general public in responding to the effects (real and imagined) of the virus. Upon arriving in Hawaii visitors are quarantined for 14...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #58
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #58 May 9, 2020 What aren’t we being told? Well, the unemployment rate hit 14.9 percent today, according to the federal government. The greatest figure of all time was during the depression when it was...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #57
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #57 May 8, 2020 What a grand excuse this has become. The great Coronavirus excuse. If you want an example of this excuse then try calling Amazon. Guess what? Amazon no longer takes phone calls. Amazon sends you...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #57
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #57 May 7, 2020 These are the days, my friend, and I wonder if we are going to get to see a time in our future when they end. Brett Favre, the football star of the Green Bay Packers and honored by just about...
The Duke, Part Twelve
The DUKE Part XII The rain came the following morning. Jimmie’s dad’s Corvair wasn’t going anywhere. Although the convertible top seemed secure when the levers were pushed to hold the canvas and metal rod lattice work down securely, the pounding rain and wind of a...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #56
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection#56 May 6, 2020 When, when indeed? When is the American culture going to get its act together and begin to take action? Are we so divided and conquered that we cannot fix some of the outrages that have...
THE TWENTY-NINTH NIGHT, SECOND PART, 30 Days Has September
There existed no corridor through the jungle, like the one that cut through the undergrowth located on the other side of the river. There, the night before, it had been easy to move back and forth through that protected passage to communicate, supply, reinforce,...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #55
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #55 May 4, 2020 The double down. Are states and medical professionals, the ones appearing on national television, doubling down on stay at home, masks, and business closures regarding the Coronavirus...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #54
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #54 May 3, 2020 Lake Geneva, WI The next step. Yes, six states have eased up on their ‘stay-at-home’ rules, and hopefully, more will follow in rapid succession. As I have attempted to illustrate in...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #53
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #53 May 2, 2020 They are starting to figure out the real effects of what they have done. They can’t say they were wrong to have so ‘over-the-top’ responded to the threat of the virus....
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #52
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #52 May 2, 2020 Quietly, very quietly, and only noted at the bottom of one of those thin columns in the New York Times, did the closure of the Jacob Javits Center in New York get done. The center had been...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #51
Journaling the Coronavirus (Covid19) Pandemic, Reflection #51 May 1, 2020 Every night is like the night before. There is no news except bad virus news. It is getting worse, it is staying the same, it has rising arcs, it will recede maybe and then come crashing...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #50
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #50 May 1, 2020 Masks and gloves are being heavily pushed for wear in almost all cases. Schools, when they open, will require masks to be worn at all times. Macy’s, the large department chain will...
Coronavirus (Covid19), Reflection #49
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #49 May 1, 2020 According to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, 98% of the American public is fully behind the closures or stay at home policies applied in most states. Am I really in the money two...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #48
Journaling the Coronavirus (Covid19) Pandemic, Reflection #48 April 29, 2020 When will the nation act after this is over? Will the nation finally figure out that an educational institution, like Harvard, that accepts sixty percent of its entrants as...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #47
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #47 April 28. 2020 The first glimmerings of distant troubles, coming on the heels of the virus assault, and the assault on the public by fearful leaders to this disease. Testing and the immunity question....
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #46
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #46 April 27, 2020 Was there not enough…I ask of God. Do you sometimes ask of God? That old adage, supposedly in the bible, but not really, “God will not give you a burden that you are not strong...
THE TWENTY-NINTH NIGHT, 30 Days has September
I examined the great stone wall, the wall that rose up from the bottom of the valley for a full thousand feet, vertically rising without big enough cracks, hand-holds or other features to allow it to be climbed without serious mountaineering equipment. The 175’s had...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #45
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #45 Sunday April 25, 2020 Helping someone else. The very best cures for depression, ennui, and just that anxious lousy feeling of worry is to get out there and find somebody else to HELP. In...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #44
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #44 April 25, 2020 Lake Geneva, WI Harley Davidson, Trek, and Alan Edmonds Shoes…what do they all have in common? The automobile, or rather the lack of those human carriages has brought a certain...
TWENTY-NINTH DAY, THIRD PART, Thirty Days Has September
I huddled in what I had come to consider my cave, a dry place in a wet world of drizzling misery. The bottom of the cave, although consisting of sandy dirt rather than stone, like its walls, was mildly dusty from going many years without being touched by outside...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #43
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #43 April 23, 2020 Some ninety-year-old doctor keeps coming on the television to pronounce that there are waves of the virus coming just up ahead. The tsunami analogy fits perfectly for this kind of utter...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #42
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #42 April 23, 2020 I feel like the outlier or outsider once again, as I look at the figures posted on MSNBC this morning. Supposedly 76 percent of the public think that these stay at home rules are the right...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #41
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #41 April 22, 2020 Capitalism is simply a word used to describe the social and economic structure of how our culture exchanges goods and services for other goods and services. It is a formalized system of...
The Duke, Part Eleven
THE DUKE Part XI With the Bofors rounds safely tucked into the padded back seat of the Corvair, Jimmy drove the machine down Kalakaua toward the zoo, this time his driving so slow and careful Darren couldn’t believe it. Jimmy’s moving of the rounds from the front...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #40
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #40 April 21, 2020 Enforcement. So far, the major effort to increase testing has been led by a media and governmental effort to describe the tests as some form of allowing those testing negative to feel relief,...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #39
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #39 April 20, 2020 The gloves and the masks. I have masks now. I am trying to get used to wearing one whenever I go out. I also have surgical gloves now, something I’ve never worn in my life. There seems...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #38
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #38 April 20, 2020 When I was in Vietnam, fighting down in the A Shau Valley, the North Vietnamese Army installed drums along the top edges of the cliff complex up above both sides of the valley, which was less...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #37
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #37 April 19, 2020 You didn’t do anything. It’s not your fault, and no, failing to wear a mask everywhere or rub with sanitizer at every contact is not your fault. We have all been conditioned by...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #36
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVD19) Pandemic, Reflection #36 April 19, 2020 As the nation shuts down. Although the door is closed and the signs are up, the nation has not achieved full shut down status just yet. The effects of shutting down are what I am...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #35
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #35 April 18, 2020 Governor Andrew Cuomo, of New York, said, this morning, on national television, that he walks the dogs, and when he’s outside he wears a mask and distances himself properly. He said...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #34
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #34 April 18, 2020 Lake Geneva, WI You are believing the numbers. You are believing the numbers on the daily, or hourly scoreboard. Almost everyone is. Those numbers have replaced sports numbers although they...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #33
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #33 April 18, 2020 Once again, the nation splits down the center politically with the ‘stay at home’ orders issued to all but seven states, which includes 97% of the population. Arkansas, Utah,...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #32
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #32 April 17, 2020 Think of a bicycle. The bike is fine at speed. It remains upright and directionally easy to turn, to slow, to speed up and more. But, if the bike slows way down, the stability brought...
Coronavirus, (COVID19), Reflection #31
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #31 April 16, 2020 Lake Geneva And the beat goes on. Wisconsin extends the ‘stay at home’ rule until May 26th. More than another month of this. They also want to get tough on giving tests to people...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #30
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #30 April 16, 2020 New York Orders Residents to Wear Masks in Public Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said all New Yorkers must wear face coverings when social distancing is not possible, including on public transport, in...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #29
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #29 Apri1l, 16 2020 What may be coming in the night (or the day), as the first days of next week dawn and poor people come to the end of a rope…because they may starve themselves without food but they...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #28
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #27 April 15, 2020 Faraday. Michael Faraday, from the 1800s. He was an expert on electromagnetism. He invented what’s called a Faraday cage, as effective today as it was back then. You can get a Faraday...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #27
Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #27 April 14, 202 Where are the railroad cars? I have seen the WWII movies, and I have seen the black and white rough films of the Jews being loaded onto railroad cars to be taken to ‘work’ camps....
The Duke, Part Ten
THE DUKE Part X Jimmy pulled the Corvair Monza Spyder up to the curb, parking parallel, right in front of the steps that led into the Lewis of Hollywood hairstyling salon where Darren’s mom worked. Jimmy jumped out of the car without opening the door, one of his...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #26
Reflection on the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, #26 April 13, 2020 Here they come. With the help of Apple and Google, the Washington Post reports this morning that the government might finally have a partial solution to the spread of the virus. They want to...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #25, Easter Sunday
Reflection #25 of Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 Happy Easter. Ted Koppel was on Sunday Morning this Sunday morning on CBS. Ted was big on how great the effect is going to be when this virus infestation goes the way of, well, World War...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #24
Journaling the Coronavirus (Covid19) Pandemic, Reflection #24 March 11, 2020 Lake Geneva, WI The loosening of the Social Fabric. Go out there and check it for yourself among the people you see and the effects you observe in your community. In my community, I was...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #23
Journaling Reflections of the Coronavirus (CIVID19) Pandemic 2020 April 11, 2020 And the beat goes on. I am sorry to report, although you’ve no doubt read or heard it elsewhere, that Michigan has banned home to home visits, travel to cottages or even visiting...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #22
Reflection # 22 of the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic April 11, 2020 Near-total unawareness and dunce cap density of directed thought. Yes, I am writing about perhaps ninety percent of the American public, and its more than knee-jerk reaction to the governmental and...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #21
Reflections on the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic #21 Aril 11, 2020 It is entirely a competition. The competition is not portrayed to be what it is, almost ever, unless in fiction or for specific circumstances. But it isn’t about specificity. It’s about...
Coronavirus (COVID10) Reflection #20
Reflection on the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic. April 10, 2020 The question is moot. There is no real answer or series of answers. The question is: how many jobs have been lost to the nation’s reaction to the spread of the Coronavirus? Similar moot questions...
Coronavirus (COVD19) Reflection #19
Reflections on the Coronavirus (COVID19) – Right Now April 9, 2020 Right now. The agents of the government are coming with money. Well, for some. Well, maybe. And they’ll be here soon, with the money, well maybe, for some. Right now, however, the effects...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #18
Reflection # 18 Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic April 8, 2020 The Devolving of Humanity – Why? What happened? What took place across our interlocked and pervasively communicated land that caused our culture to change from one of a foundationally effective society...
The Duke, Part Nine
THE DUKE PART IX Darren slept fitfully in his bedroom at the house on 16th Avenue. His brother had left for the Mainland, and St. Norbert College months before, so he had the whole room to himself. Darren would be going to the same college if he lived that long. ...
Coronavirus (COVID19) Reflection #17
Reflection on the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic March 31, 2020 I posted this on my Facebook pages and for some strange reason it created some spirited dialog about being an alarmist and creating “panic”. Interesting times when common sense ideas are...
Coronavirus (COVID19), Reflection #16
Reflections focused on the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic March 27, 2020 What you are going to need, as this crisis across the country really begins to bite into almost everyone’s personal life and need for survival: During this “pandemic” have great...Subscribe to FROM THE WILDERNESS
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