
Brief Notes on the 1812 Overture
On what it feels like to honest-to-God defend your country.
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

On what it feels like to honest-to-God defend your country.

Y’all don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance…
Of what a miracle it is to even be alive.

RIP Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart
“The people we see as skeletons, we all know by name”
Of why it is still righteous and just to rage against being a rat in a cage.

I was recently reminded of the existence of The Secret–the 2006 self-help book to end all self-help books–which certainly brought back some cringeworthy memories!

“Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.”

Alan Sparhawk finally gave me an excuse to discuss JCMF.
A Love Supreme, September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967
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