Monthly Archives: February 2020

To Whom Do You Compare Yourself?

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

Do you ever ponder, you who rage in self-pity, against whom your measuring rod is fixed? When I was in Africa, one of the many times, I had a driver for my wife and my family. We had only one … Continue reading →

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Their Destruction Will Bring No Freedom…

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

I tested out my starter-wings of independence in the gloriously nihilistic ‘90s. I might not have known anything, but neither did anybody else; high school even back then not carrying out very well its primary function which is to convey … Continue reading →

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I Am Not Raising A “Greta”

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

I am not raising a Greta. It’s not really right; in fact the tragedy of that train-wreck sometimes takes my breath away. Life is sad enough, hard enough, and with more bitterness and frustration all of its own to foist … Continue reading →

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Our Joy is Catching

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

Just as I was penning my own thoughts on our arriving satisfaction, a world away on the shores of the Pacific – the same thoughts, eloquently expressed below. Maybe there’s something to our new Pax Americana?? “The money hit means … Continue reading →

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Not The Days of Revolution

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

Don’t look now, but a quiet contentedness has settled upon the land. A Pax Americana might be upon us. It seems most Americans are pretty happy; 90% if you believe the polls. Certainly much of this has to do with … Continue reading →

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For Want of Those Who Would Care

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

“A poet’s real biography is the biography of his inner self, the history of his spiritual life, inseparable from the life and history of his people (…) The sense of civic duty in poetry is nothing abstract, nor dependent on … Continue reading →

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Ivan Turgenev and His Gentry

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

At the beginning of the golden age of Russian literature, when Russia was emerging from poetry – as all developed literary societies must – and turning to glorious prose, there was Ivan Turgenev. Born into lower nobility, impoverished but still … Continue reading →

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