March 4th, 2014: In Ukraine

I am in Ukraine, possibly Kiev.

A young, female college student from the U.S. is speaking to the Ukrainian people. She says, "You must fight against this aggression, even if it means your defeat. If you resist now, you'll be remembered forever for having done the right thing." She's not very inspiring and has that idealism so common in undergrads.

I am now in a shopping mall in Ukraine. Protesters in dirty clothes mill about. Water runs down the walls in several places. The walls are stained a dark, reddish brown where the water runs down them. The place is a ruin, but was clearly once a popular and trendy place.

February 5th, 2014: Exploding Eagles

The sky is overcast.

High tension wires stretch across my view of the gray-white sheet of sky overhead.

A Bald Eagle flies toward the point where one high tension wire connects to a tower. The wire is looped just after the clamp that holds it taut. The eagle flies into the loop and explodes in a blinding flash of metallic white. A few singed feather parts fall from the scene.

Another eagle meets the same fate.

And another.

Thomas Edison appears in the sky--only from the shoulders up. He's enormous. An over voice tells the history of the exploding eagles and how Edison saved them by creating a new coil that did not harm them when they flew into it.