Good Morning Doggerland!

When you cross the tram lines in the centre of Krakow, you are in fact crossing the dried out river that in medieval times seperated the town of Krakow from the town of Kazimierz. And as you walk through Kazimierz,the Jewish quarter, you'll stumble across a square with open air antique stalls. I'll try to describe one. Behind the stall sits a middle aged, fairly heavy man in a rather raggy shirt and brown cap. I can't actually tell whether it's leather or not. He is unshaven, and, in the manner of antique dealers everywhere on every level, seemingly disinterested but in fact intensely aware of you as you browse his stall. On the stall I spy: 1) An enameled Mezuah with embossed Menorah. 2) A miniature bust of Stalin in bronze or brass (it's hard to tell the difference with age). 3) Numerous crucifixes of varying size and age. 4) WWII Eagle badge complete with swastika. 5) Old stained, pewter items from an incomplete Havdalah set. 6...

A soldier's prayer could be many things. A prayer for the lost and a prayer for the living. And perhaps a prayer for forgiveness and for deliverance and for wisdom and for the future of our kind.

"And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock." "But now there were twelve strokes to be sounded by the bell of the clock.." "The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure." "There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians.." "..there was Beauty.." "..there was wine." "All these and security were within. Without was the Red Death ." "And thus, too, it happened, perhaps, that before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before." "..whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock.." "And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls o...

National bird of Belize!