Happy World Chess Day! With homage to "The Seventh Seal". Anynays. The four horsies? 1) A new ruler, who; 2) ignites wars, that; 3) cause famine and disease, which; 4) leads to mass death. A pattern as old as humanity. And clear if you read Ancient Greek in the proper context. The question is, when ... will it end?

Happy World Chess Day! Again! Knowledge and experience are just facts and stories. Unless. You undergo transformation. To become what you’ve learned. I call that process "cocooning". I contemplate if I am the butterfly. Or the man. And revel in the mystery of whether my next metamorphosis will require the pawn’s quixotic journey to ...