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Continue reading →: War, Coffee Breaks, & a Sense of Humor
One of the books I’m currently reading is Hero, the Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda. I’m in chapter two of the book, where T.E. Lawrence is sizing up Emir Feisal’s army of Arab irregulars (tribesmen) and their fighting abilities against the Turkish army. While slowly…
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Continue reading →: The Continuing Crisis of Western Civilization
Plato, and before him poets like Hesiod, complained that society was going to hell. And think about it, western civilization was just getting started! Throughout the Platonic Dialogues (399 to 347 BC) there’s a sense of a longing for the past, the sense that something is being lost, that the youth…
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Continue reading →: The Ghosts of Gettysburg
This post is about civil war history, but it’s also written as a memento for my youngest son to remember our trip by. In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls.…
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Continue reading →: The Dictionary Project
I picked up my youngest son at school the other day. After getting in the car, instead of immediately buckling up, he started searching his book bag for something. I sat patiently and waited util he was ready to go. He found what he was looking for and got buckled…
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Jeff Wills 