deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

A Memory  It came back to me not in the way a thing might be returned to its rightful owner but like dance music traveling in the dark from one end of a lake to the other. Billy Collins

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south,Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072 sq mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Human habitation…

Now to the land of ‘what if’. The International Flag of Planet Earth. What if there was a symbol that could represent not only the planet where we live, but the residents on that planet, humanity, all life forms, oceans, land. To remind the people of Earth that we share this planet, no matter national boundaries;…

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcementservice branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the country’s eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the United States military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters and a federal regulatory agency mission as…

Eswatini, formally the Kingdom of Eswatini, also known by its former official names Swaziland and the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the northeast, where it shares a border with Mozambique. At no more than 200 km (120 mi) north to south and 130 km (81 mi) east to west, Eswatini is one…

I was born five years after the end of World War II. It was in the middle of the time when the USA began its obsession with determining who were the good guys and who were the bad guys. Occasionally subtle, but mostly overtly, it was ‘hammered’ into me that I must fear Russia. After…

 “Every day do something that won’t compute.” Wendell Berry

Limits  Even on a calm day if you remain quiet and hold your breath, you still will not be able to hear the singing of the clouds. Billy Collins

The Code of the West  Say what you want about me, but leave the horse I rode in on out of it. Billy Collins. 

“Emotions ought to be allowed to run their course. They are not right or wrong; they are merely indicators of what is happening.”  Richard Rohr