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Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health
I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health. The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence… Continue reading
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Good and Building Souls: Words Better than Mine. Hafiz as guest poet
I could say a lot about this country right now, and of course I have. But our nation’s soul is flickering right now and Hafiz gets to the point in this truncated poetic segment. “A child’s mere pencil sketch is… Continue reading
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Good and the Short Standing Tall: the Death of Real Criticism in the USA
Can you imagine someone so “in need” that before they walk into a stand of trees, they have all the trees trimmed to a foot below their height in order that they may be the tallest entity in the forest.… Continue reading
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Good, Right or Left and the Radical Heart
The midterms are coming up and once again it looks like the fabric of unity is ripping apart under the stress to the political binaries. The nation is in halves and the parties are themselves breaking again into halves. Unity… Continue reading
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Good and Poisoning it Forward
This writer remembers better days for America where generous people performed acts of mercy and generosity, not for personal gain, but to pay it forward to the next generation. We all basked in the warm glow of acts that ‘payed… Continue reading
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Good and Three C’s in Lasting Hard Times: An Uncredentialed Homily for a Stuggle
The three Cs mental health in lasting hard times are Connection, Caring, and Comedy. If you are not formally diagnosed in these profoundly difficult days, for the average American, these three Cs add ballast to your boat in the storm… Continue reading
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Good, Power, Minds and Hearts
The one good lesson that can be learned from this era is there is no hammer big enough or power sufficient to overcome the power of good minds and powerful hearts. Nations will concede a lot but they ultimately won’t… Continue reading
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Good and Playing a Losing Hand against a Cheater
This writer learned early in his career if you don’t have the votes you don’t have the power no matter what kind of rhetoric you can marshal. In the games of cards one can almost feel a losing hand as… Continue reading
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Good, Jelly Beans, AI, and The Odyssey
I can remember my love of jelly beans as a child. The more the better was my approach. This writer can also remember the stomach aches when he got more than he was allowed, acquired through nefarious means. As I… Continue reading
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Good and Science in Handcuffs
Many of us, including myself are alive on this planet today thanks to the work of science. Never in this nation’s history has science ever been anything but the frontier of human knowledge. Never that is until this administration that… Continue reading
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Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses
Imagine in a storm a tree falls and breaks the high power electrical line to the hospital. Not only that, but the backup generators are underwater and the trucks with repair supplies can’t make it to the line break. The… Continue reading










