War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Clear skies with a fingernail moon hanging in the dark, quiet with just a hint of the rumble in the Pacific Ocean a couple of miles away — up here on California’s north coast we’ve been experiencing some most-delightful weather the last few days. A high of 70 degrees is forecast for today, and the…
Clear and warm this way-early Thursday on California’s north coast — the half-moon still hanging brightly in the southern sky. The weather around these parts the last few days has been wonderful — temperatures up in the middle sixties is near-about a heat wave for us. Weather is just weather, however, if it’s felt by…
A clear, beautiful early Wednesday morning here on California’s north coast, and as the half-moon hangs in the southern sky, the sound of the peaceful Pacific can be heard raging in the distance — only a couple of miles. A scene of ease and tranquility. Maybe in the mind, buddy. Mark Twain, ever the delightful…
Clear and kind of warm this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast, the near-half moon hanging like a bright closet-orb seen from far away. Day-to-day life viewed from the stars. In a world gone bat-shit crazy, focal points are seemingly on everything except the way-most important — the earth that moon is still-shining happily down…
Two poeticĂ‚Â courtroom-comments yesterday encapsulate the nowadays: The defense attorney for a woman charged with severing the penis of her estranged husband said she “had a break from reality” the night of the attack. And the prosecution countered: “They say anger is the wind that blows out the candle of the mind.” Awoke this morning in…
High fog, or low clouds this morning with just a hint of cool as we start off Thursday here on California’s north coast — and it’s a snap in summer’s direction, too. Yesterday was the hottest yet this year, and a new record for Eureka — about 10 miles south of myself — and at…
A week later here on this way-early Monday — the trauma of the last few days still pretty intense even if the bloodied dust has settled. Now the bullshit begins. Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead, his brother, Dzhokhar, in custody and reportedly responding to written questions. The big question, however, is what to do next —…
Another Saturday, another week gone-on-down the road. These past days, though, have been one for the so-called books; a near-literary, five part mini series starting Monday and ending yesterday, tied together by one crazy, weirdly-related, mirror-narrative of a most-violent future. A time-yet-to-be seen viewed in near-real time and from many angles — anyone with access…
(Illustration: Boston bombing suspects; white-hat guy still at large, the other, dead — found here). If those two deranged clowns pictured above truly are the Boston marathon bombers, that photo will become an iconic-terror symbol, easily understood and to become another snapshot in how dangerously-strange modern life has become — cool, calm, collected and total…
Here we are getting close to the end of another work week — overcast and warm this Thursday morning on California’s north coast — and life apparently has seen better days. A sense of rage against the machinery. The feeling a terrible end is just around the corner, but no one seems to give a…
