by Brian Volck | Jan 20, 2020 | Baltimore, Martin Luther King Jr., murders, Robert F Kennedy
There was nearly a murder a day in my adopted city of Baltimore in 2019; the official total being 348. The casualties in this ongoing, undeclared, and pointless war fell once again most heavily on African-American families. We are a very long way from “the dream” well...
by Brian Volck | Jan 6, 2020 | Epiphany, TS Eliot
It’s the Feast of the Epiphany in the West and of the Theophany in the East, and though T S Eliot’s Ariel Poem, “The Journey of the Magi,” gets trotted rather often this time of year, there’s still something in the words that makes me shiver. From the slightly...