Windows to Russia

Once what we said mattered and what we cared about mattered, but today unless you can sue about what bothers you or interferes with you or impedes your progress to wealth. Nothing matters and no one cares. Example: Someone fences off half your property? The only true recourse left is to sue that person and […]

Days like today bring back memories, even memories we do not want to be brought to the surface again. I have found that dreams bring certain memories with them and a morning like today, brings other memories with them. My dreams bring the past of war and when I wake on a morning like this, […]

The Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2015 (Defense Authorization Act) should be renamed the Howard P. “Buck” McKeon Global Manifest Destiny Act of FY2015. The Defense Authorization Act reads like something that the Biffer-Baum Birds in Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book might have written. And the image that most accurately depicts […]

Around 10 pm last night the train pulled into the station at Saria (the big village, I spell it how it sounds to me) and Sveta my sweety got off. She brought a few bags of stuff and most important, she brought her beautiful smile. It was nice seeing that smile and now she is […]

I found an old Soviet made wind up alarm clock. It was covered in dirt and in pieces as I found it. I gathered all the pieces and later after finishing cleaning the corner I found it in, I sipped a cup of coffee and worked on it. The front glass is broken, someone painted […]

Most people I know would not find the village that I am at, as being anywhere close to perfect. That is anyone I know from all over the world. I know people from India who would go insane at the shear thought of such isolation and I know people from Australia, who would scream foul […]

Finally Gardens are just about planted and trying to survive in this fairly harsh climate we have in Russia. This weekend a family of six whirled into the village, grabbed the buckets and emptied the well. They were in survival mode to save their garden. They had tomatoes planted from the week before and this […]

I use to think being blessed was something spiritual and powerful, then as the years went by, I realized that being blessed was a state of mind… That is what I am thinking this morning as I sip that cup of coffee… Every morning I wake up at around 6am and I find a big […]

My foot is almost healed, or at least enough to allow me to run around again. I have always healed fast and in the past have worked with a broken foot and did not know it. This time after stepping on a nail and being diabetic, I played it smart and kept the bandage clean […]

Russia has quietly been explaining for years now that Shale oil and fracking and all that other wonderful fairy land oil stuff is a fallacy that only little elves and hobbits believe in. Russia says that yes there is lots of energy to extract, but the cost of extraction, either by financial and or selfdestruction […]