“Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” – John Adams – “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly…” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis – Jump On The Bus: Make Democracy Work Again – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While House Speaker Nanci Pelosi recently came out for a quick, short impeachment investigation focusing only on President Donald Trump’s abuse of power with regard to withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for a “favor” of an investigation into his political rival Joe…
Climate Change Protests and Impeachment Inquiry Give Us Some Hope — The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Well this is extraordinary. Since I came down from the mountain in the Catoctins, crossed through the nation’s capital and setup camp on the Potomac River in Virginia, the people woke up and…
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MONTROSS, Va. — An American bald eagle just flew by overhead, going north up the Virginia bank of the Potomac River. Its white crown, yellow beak and brown feathers were unmistakable shining in the early Autumn sun with a powder blue sky as a background filled with…
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s the 18th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and I’m still not sure what to say. Some historians say give it 20 years. There’s a pretty good column about the world we lost…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — If I had the power to change the national debate away from Trump’s distracting tweets, this is what I would have us all talking about. In recent years, with all the climate change related coverage of impacts from global warming, including massive hurricanes and…
By Glynn Wilson – CUNNINGHAM FALLS BY CAMP DAVID, Md. — In an extraordinary revelation set to change the subject of the news away from President Donald Trump’s sharpie scandal over changing the track map for Hurricane Dorian to show a threat to Alabama, the president revealed Saturday that he had been planning a secret…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you have an interest in the national seat of power in this broken American democracy, as I do, your path will take you here to the nation’s capital. There’s lots to see and do here. If you also have an interest in saving…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the nation’s capital in reprieve this weekend from the summer heat waves, heat domes and thunderstorms pounding in from the southwest, what locals like to think of as a harbinger of fall, turning away from the news it might be easy to forget…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s hot as hell could be inside the Beltway again, with a projected high on Sunday of 96 degrees and a low of only 75 tonight, a harbinger of the future for cities along the Eastern Seaboard. As I hit the button to publish this…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Is it possible the promotion of a false political myth that democracy and capitalism are one and the same, and a layman’s view of Social Darwinism as a good thing, has spawned a nation of psychopaths and elected a Psychopath-in-Chief? According to experts, the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — They say if you listen close enough at night by the creeks in these parts, you can still hear the cries of some of the ghosts of the 51,000 soldiers who bled and died here in the effort to save or break up the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. – Imagine this: What if, back in the 1960s, you could have been reading John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley: In Search of America in daily bytes on a website and found out when he posted something new with a social media platform like Facebook? Would…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Remember the other day when I said it’s not the destination, or the journey, but what you learn from it? Picture this. A Cherokee and a Polack from Alabama and a redneck Jew from Maryland are standing in an alleyway in a suburban neighborhood.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Here’s what you get when you combine the wisdom of Aristotle and Henry David Thoreau. You’ve heard the idiom, “nature abhors a vacuum,” right? So what does that mean, how does it apply to the current state of our democracy, and why am I…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Everyone should be familiar with the apocryphal phrase, often turned into a cliché by winners on television reality shows or sporting events and sometimes attributed to being popularized by American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson: On life, he allegedly said, “It’s not the destination, it’s…
Unfortunately, that probably won’t happen – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s Sunday in the campground just 13 miles north of the White House and summer is right around the corner after a few glorious spring days just over the District of Columbia line in Maryland. We had a…
Friend, friend Here you come again Empty handed like A pauper in the cold You found, my friend That lonely road again Where the world has left Your wounded soul I have said I will be with you till the end But sometimes the weight Is more than I can hold Forgiveness comes But not…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The ghosts of Jefferson Davis and George Wallace must live in the old capitol building in Montgomery. How else to explain why the fundamentalist Christian Republicans who somehow control all three branches of the state government still in the most retrograde state in the Union managed to…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Hey, I’m as big a science geek and science fiction fan as anyone else. The announcement by NASA of a plan to go back to the moon and on to Mars should be a moment for excitement and an occasion for national and human pride. So why…
