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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 foolish inexperienced apprentice lineman says “no problem” grabbing both ends of the of the severed…

  • Good and The Three Minds of America

    No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind  and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting with the first two weaklings, the Warring Mind person lives in a complex world that…

  • Good, and Serious Levity in Resistance: Words Better than Mine, Poet: Theodore Roethke

    It is Sunday.  The demands for writing yet more on the egregious behavior of our current administration is almost compulsive for this writer.  But the spiritual wisdom of many of our powerful religious traditions instructs us to take a breath on one of the week’s days and rest.  The bombast and lies will still be…

  • Good and When a Man can’t Lose

    Every parent sooner or later must teach their children you can’t win them all. As a parent you endure the child’s tears and encourage a different approach and wait for the insight to take hold. We all have loses that shape us as we grow. Perhaps we might take that child out for ice cream…

  • Good, and the Deaths of Innocents on American Soil

    Our President and his advisors were upset when the their policies and outrageous, targeted deportation goals resulted in the deaths of innocent people on American soil. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land. Sadly the president’s outrage was not over the deaths of the innocents, but the agency’s reasonable efforts being…

  • Good and the Slaughter of Innocents

    Recently in Sudan, 60,000 inhabitants in the Sudanese city of El Fasher were simply slaughtered. How is that possible?  The arms industry and its many international branches of enterprise make it possible and our administration’s indifference to such horrifying mayhem enables.  Silence is compliance.  Some of that silence may be connected to our leader’s lucrative…

  • Good, the Brown Dandelion, and a Bedeviled Culture of Engineered Hatred

    On a walk around a lake the other day this writer came upon a very young girl about 5 years old offering a look at her brown sort of tired dandelion to any walker coming by.  Her precious flower was the joy of the moment and she wanted to share it to all comers. Her…

  • Good and Words Better than Mine: Working Humility: Poet Ada Limon

    . . . You there standing in the crowd I’m not proud. The stove can’t boast of the meal. . . Ada Limon:  excerpted from the poem The Noisiness of Sleep from the book Bright Dead Things The poet can say in one short line what I can’t say in one whole page.   Just a few good words…

  • Good and from Christian to “Secular Global Liberalism”; an American Fallacy

    This writer understands that our vice president is concerned about a drift from Christian civilization to secular global liberalism.  His concern is our nation is in a deterioration of Christian values, morality and family.  This writer finds it odd since the very Constitution to which he vowed fidelity on a Bible was built on the anticipation…

  • Good, Wealth, Capitalism and Anti-gravity

    Galleries are not the engine of the art world. Artists and their art are. Culture only trickles up, and money never trickles down.  A comment by Lari Pittman from Los Angeles in an NYT letter to the editor. Here are a few easily forgotten facts of life in a capitalist, transactional society.  Capital, which is…