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  • Good, Line of Sight, and the Arroyos of Politics

    We all are programmed to respond to line of sight.  For example, I am on a hike in the high deserts of New Mexico and I see the destination structure flickering in the heat in the distance.  I know that in that house are cold refreshments, and shade from the hot sun.  But, for the…

  • Good, and Words Better than Mine: Mahatma Gandhi

    “Your beliefs become your thoughts,  Your thoughts become your words,  Your words become your actions,  Your actions become your habits,  Your habits become your values,  Your values become your destiny.” Reflections from “The Good Decision” This sequence  points to the importance of growing your sense of good.  This is not only true for the individual,…

  • Good and the Strawman called Congress

    It just might be time for those in Congress who have integrity to walk out and end any pretense that things are only just a little pressured in Washington.  The Constitutional authority of Congress is being violated almost daily, and somehow both parties sputter lightly and do the kindergarten finger thing of pointing out blame…

  • Good, Mental Health Crisis: and the 6 Chambers of Chance.

    The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) seems an inventory of the predictable pain and suffering in the human mind. If you or a friend or family member has a mental illness you will have directly encountered the DSM or it may have been gently translated for you by your therapist.  Either way the…

  • Good and Super Powers in an Age Needing Super Subordinates

    That any nation is a super power is an astounding bit of hubris.  No nation can be a super power when nature has geologic time and sheer force on her side. Nature is the superpower and human kind’s only thrivers will be the Super-Subordinates who use their intelligence to figure out how to dance to…

  • Good and the Greatness of Commonality: Words Better than Mine. Poet: Hafiz

    The Foundations for Greatness.    Hafiz “Greatness Is always built upon this foundation. The ability  To appear, speak, and act As the most  Common  Man”. Sunday Reflections from The Good Decision Hafiz and wisdom such as his reveals the nude emperor in all of us.  Commonality is not less than great, yet somehow who among…

  • Good, Real Life, Fellowship and the Games of Crisis

    This writer can measure the sheer exhaustion of people with the current day crisis of leadership by how readers respond the the titles of this column.  I would have to say that there is a limit being reached in terms of how much bad news we can absorb. These columns are written partially to express…

  • Good and Post Script on a Failed Execution

    The state of Tennessee has provided the final proof that state sponsored executions of human beings is a brutal, crude, and barbaric practice unworthy of a civilized society.  In Christa Pikes’ situation a person commits a horrible crime as a teenager, spends her life in isolation until the age of 50, and prepared to die,…

  • Good and Our Crimes Against Humanity

    Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law The detention and deportation of persons without real due process in America is illegal and immoral. The deportation of people to countries from which they have not come or have no ties doubles…

  • Good, Nightmares and the Death Penalty

    It defies my comprehension how people can so passionately support the death penalty. A woman with reported to be suffering from bi-polar, brain injury, child abuse is about to be executed in Tennessee. She has the unholy distinction of being the first woman in 200 years to be so executed. She is apparently guilty of…