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Good Fear and Authentic Courage
Our President has called Pope Leo IV soft. A man who wants to convert the White House to a gilded bunker ball room and build a massive Arch of Something or Other to serve as a legacy tower to enhance his security has been critical of the courage of an unarmed priest who served his…
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Good, Whispers and Touches, Election day Medicine, Words better than Mine.
What ever dread or giddy celebration is anticipated from this election week, remember this. The consequences will come with perfect certainty, but the consequences are not you. You will continue as you are being who you are, moment by moment. From William Stafford’s book: Writing the Australian Crawl “It is a whisper. You turn somewhere,…
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Good, Doom Loops and Winning the Right to Work and Sacrifice
The Harry Potter days of magical resolution are over. The best the winning party can hope for is to win the right to offer America a vision of something for which they are satisfied to work for and sacrifice. ‘Magical thinking’ is that the next government will solve today’s problems in the next term of…
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Good and Ethics; Why even Try?
The human brain at times seems inadequate to the task of the civilization it has built. To remedy that problem we recently have dropped to the most convenient and immediate option of deceiving ourselves rather than rising to the task of the society we have built. We have began to lie to ourselves without shame…
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Good and Purchasing the Election on Credit
A million dollar bounty for citizens turning on each other? Whose money pays for that? The recent announcement by the President that he is offering 8 billion dollars in farm aid to farmers who have been suffering from his policies would be good news to farmers. There are two problems with that offer. The first…
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Good Joy, the Vote, and Words Better than Mine: Poet Mary Oliver
Excerpted from Morning Poem by Mary Oliver “. . .Each pond. with its blazing lillies is a prayer heard and answered lavishly every morning. Whether or not you have ever dared to be happy Whether or not you have ever dared to pray.” Words of Reflection from The Good Decision Our nation on the is…
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Good and Bling Dignity for Sale
Have you ever sat in an airport listening to the boarding calls and wondered why you aren’t a “preferred” flyer. And if you are not “preferred, what exactly are you? Those first class customers even get a separate strip of carpet to walk down in insulated glory to the jet bridge. I don’t resent the…
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Good, Cruelty, and When the Voice of Conscience is called a “Whine”
Our Vice President has called the Republican Ohio Governor’s opposition offered as a voice of conscience protesting a cruel political add a “whine”. This, from a Catholic man who presumably aspires to be a Christian. To understand the contradiction of our Vice President’s words one has to ask: “from where does the voice of conscience…
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Good but God Help Us, What is Next?
A decision may actually be a good decision, but any choice may also turn out to be a bad decision. Whatever the quality of the decision we make next, any decision is always about the future. One can say many things about the future, but future is invariably the second leg of the present For…
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Good, Denaturalization and The Devil’s Nail Clipper
Denaturalization is a euphemism for destroying the nature of something severing its relationship to its nature. To be naturalized in the national sense is to become a fully adopted as a family member or national citizen. Our current administration has decided to use the extensive powers of the justice system to commit an act of…
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