The name Cold Flute comes from the Chinese poet Po Chu I who wrote of a flute player who with his music could make a cold valley warm. Cold Flute covers a wide range of topics from politics to poetry to social commentary.
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I do a lot of political commentary but I don't want to make to0 much of the photo above. I found it on Mother Jones and started laughing when I realized no one was precisely following the abrupt turns of the blue line. Of course not. The people at the...
I don't know the history behind the following Chinese poem but the image it conjures is extraordinarily evocative. It was translated by Burton Watson. The poem can be found in The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry.
Autumn Cove
At Autumn Cove, so many...
Sometimes when you read Google News a headline catches your eye and you feel compelled to check it out. Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw was in an accident Friday afternoon. I didn't like the sensationalistic turn on some of the headlines but the Post...
Sarah Palin wants to be a celebrity and she wants to be filthy rich. Given her temperament there are several paths she might have chosen. I'm surprised she didn't pick religion but maybe there weren't enough people in Alaska to go that route. So she...
In the United States, the production of oil in the lower 48 reached its maximum in the early 1970s. A few years later, there was a small upward bounce when production began on the North Slope of Alaska. Sometimes politicians play games with the extra...
