KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1775

“The Atlantic is a stormy moat, and the Mediterranean,

The blue pool in the old garden,

More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice

Of ships and blood and shines in the sun; but here is the Pacific:

The ships, planes, wars are perfectly irrelevant.”

(the beginning of the poem “The Eye” by Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962)

CHICAGO SHOOTING GALLERY

Through April 30, the number of hom…