Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: Ahora que el obispo de la diócesis de Renada, a la que pertence esta mi querida aldea de Valverde de Lucer...

Here are the Evening Note posts for the first half of 2017. June 29 : Learning Urdu June 9 : Invented Traditions May 22 : Moral Testim...

And so ends the month of June. A Poet's Final Bow I cannot write at all and therefore I must write. When civilization falls each ...

Thought for the Evening: Learning Urdu This summer I have been taking a Continuing Education course on basic Urdu. (I had hoped to find a ...

Snow Picture Her hair is flecked with flakes of snow and this I know, that time, a bird now tame, has given up its game, and by her ha...

Today is the memorial for St. Irenaeus, who was born at some point in the first half, and probably the first quarter, of the second century....

Silk and Blood A wild soldier in a wilder war waved his sword in shining sun; "Sword!" he cried, "What do you want?"...