260 years and the Shogunate empire falls. Who to? A group of ambitious, mid ranked samurai from the outer feudal domains. A new rule, a new symbol.

How are you? What is the temperature of your core? Does it read grateful?

The winds change. Each breeze brings something different. Clean, foul, mysterious. And it passes.

What do you call someone that has veto power over all branches of government and is constitutionally immune from prosecution? An absolute monarchy. Or, King Mswati III if you live in Eswatini. And, Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Crowned at the age of 18. Political dissent and civic and labor activism are subject to harsh punishment,…

What unites Americans? Policies? Sports? The YMCA.