So at the end of a busy week, I went to the end of our road to stomp around the headlands. I stepped above the usual trails to find another view of the Pacific. What I found was another old 'youth' culture talisman: "Punk Is Not Dead". I recently saw a photo, taken in Patagonia, of a rock with "  Donde esta el punk rock?"

Same vibe - opposite hemispheres. Maybe it's the solstice. Peaks and valleys

 

So how many Polish Nationals end up in Chicago because the airline booking system mistakes ORD (Chicago-O'Hare) for ORK (Cork International)?

Ninety years ago this month, Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon M.C., of the Royal Welch Fusiliers wrote the following as an explanation of his refusal to return from leave to the fighting in France. It was sent to his commanding officer, printed in the Times of London the following month and read to the House of Commons by an M.P. The British Army took action and diagnosed Sassoon as needing hospitalization for neurasthenia.


Finished with the War
A Soldier's Declaration

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practiced on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realise.

S.Sassoon

July 1917