Tag: Melrose

• Beneath the Same Cloud

  A 1953 schoolboy and a 2026 billionaire build the exact same bomb shelter. One used imagination, the other uses billions—but the radioactive cloud sees no net worth.

  RMDell’Orfano

  June 11, 2026

  Autobio

  1953, 2026, Atmospheric Drift, Bill Gates, Billionaire Bunkers, Childhood Fears, Cold War, Duck and Cover, Human Impermanence, Mark Zuckerberg, Melrose, Mushroom Cloud, Nevil Shute, On the Beach, Peter Thiel, Spiritual Refuge, Temporal Illusion, The Antenna Paradox

• The Masquerade of Life

  All the world’s a masquerade, where one man in his time plays many parts, and I had learned how to slip past its stopgates unnoticed.

  RMDell’Orfano

  October 1, 2025

  Autobio

  Country Club, Masquerade of Life, Melrose, Mt Hood, Path Perilous

• The Rock of Ages

  3. Among broken pedestals on Mt. Hood, I sensed for the first time that life’s story stretched far beyond my own—a childhood glimpse of eternity.

  RMDell’Orfano

  August 31, 2025

  Autobio

  Childhood memory, Coming of age, Leap of Faith, Melrose, Mt Hood, MtHood, orgotten ruins, Rock of Ages