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  • Good, and Everyone’s Shape Shifting Mind . . . Sunday Words of Rest

    Dog Years by Billy Collins Today I turned  420 in dog years so I have decided to take myself  for a long walk on the parth around the lake and when I get back home I will jump up on my chest lick my nose, ears, and eyelids while yelling at myself to get down. …

  • Good and Congress’s lmpotence in Crisis: A Call for Presence, Help, and Hope

    How would you feel if you opened your heart and spilled your troubles to a person who could help and that person just turned around and walked out the door mumbling something about needing a break?  I suspect you might be feeling hurt, angry, humiliated, unvalued, and unfriended. Our democracy teeters on the brink, and Congress…

  • Good, Peace, and Violent Voices Condemning Violent Acts

    I once explained to a friend I couldn’t vote for the current president because it struck me he has a warring mind and warring minds beget warring acts.  Violence begins with violent minds and violent minds express violence leading to violent acts.  It is too late for this president to decry violence just because it…

  • Words Better than Mine: Hannah Arendt and Authoritarian Government

    Hannah Arendt was a German, Jewish, American, Philosopher, and Historian from the 20th century. Her insights on authoritarian and totalitarian government accurately predicted today’s situation in the United States.  If you read nothing else by her, these quotes should get you started one what you need to understand.  The quotes and language below are from…

  • Good, Melting Pots, and America as Creativity

    A minister in our community recently warned about` the dangers of attempting to render the complex web of American stories into one absolute, value laden, dominant story.  Americans are a tapestry of dynamic, powerful stories in interaction with evolving communities of all colors changing all the time. The near miraculous paradox of America is it’s…

  • Good, Globalism and Heart Disease

    Certain forms of disregulation in the human body can add up to a heart attack in the human body. No mystery that from the moment the heart stops the entire body begins to break down in a catastrophic hurry. The longer the heart stops the more permanent the damage of the original disregulation. Still we…

  • Good, Avoidable death and Affordable life.

    It is most unfortunate that when this administration began its budget cuts not many of us had any idea how many lives our taxes in the form of aid were saving in the world and how many lives would be lost by cutting that aid. We are talking about lost lives across the life span…

  • Good, leadership and the Chains of Retribution

    If we could read the secret history of our enemies  we would like to punish we would find in each life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all our hostility. Henry. Wadsworth Longfellow as quoted by Magaret Wheatley in her book Restoring Sanity Never elect or promote a leader who is given to revenge and…

  • Good and Better Words than Mine: Poetry . . . Another Form of Resistance

    A good poem is a mystery seed.  Read it and plant it in your heart.  You really can’t know what will grow.  The language of this age is worn and lacking power through continuous misuse: powerful words are disregarded and weak words invested with too much power.  Hence our culture stalls. Poetry is the incubator…

  • Good and Guilt, the Problem with Intention

    In France, last week a multinational corporation and its executives have been found guilty and sentenced for supporting terrorist organizations. Even in the Nuremberg trials of WWII it became nearly impossible for the courts to hold corporations responsible for supporting the Nazi regime with their products. They could defend themselves from the atrocities their products…