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  • Good, Cult, and America’s Broken Paradigm

    This writer has written about cults off and on in America and yes we are a culture infected with cult, but cult is not the bottom of our problems; merely a symptom.  Cults come and go and are usually time limited simply because they are lead by men or women whose grandiosity and self-inflation are…

  • Good and Bucking the Floodgates of Influence

    With the amount of money being raised by both parties for the next election cycle we should be skeptical of nearly everything and anything we hear regarding candidates on any media.  Our elections have turned into massive churns of easy money devoted to even easier misrepresentations of this most complex period of American history.  The…

  • 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 every religions  best description of God. Who then will ever take issue or argue over…

  • 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. Of course that is ridiculous. No one could be that insecure or have the resources…

  • 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 is in human terms a radical commitment. Infants are introduced to life with one heart…

  • 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 it forward’.  Those more generous times were not perfect by a long shot, but they…

  • 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 we are destined to live through.  This of course is only advice from a relatively…

  • 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 concede their minds and hearts.  Our current leadership can’t seem to wrap their comprehension around…

  • 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 you examine the chaos just dealt to you. You need to either change those cards…

  • 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 grew up, I came to understand a simple rule, almost physically true; things that are…