conquering

Since 1994, McKagan has traveled back and forth between his native Seattle and the place where his band came together before conquering the world.

And after his brush with an assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania in mid-July, he arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee a day later as a conquering hero to his supporters.

As he stands on the edges of the first days of his new career, one he’s hellbent on conquering, he’s moving with as clear of a mind as possible.

But these transplants were not always the sweet oranges we know, and sometimes their taste had a tinge of the bitter to them, and their rinds could be as tough as the leather vests on the conquering Spanish soldiers, the soldados de cuera.

The choice for men is not between conquering or being conquered.