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  • Good, Change and the Poet Laureate

    We each carry the story of our birthplace in pieces of earth, water, sky and spirit. Though nothing appears to have changed here in this Indian town along the Arkansas River, it is always changing. Joy Harjo from her book Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States (2019) and member…

  • Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock

    Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a comeback in our culture. That should come as no surprise to any of us given…

  • Good, Character, Parable, and the More Dangerous Liar

    One of the benefits of including a little poetry in these posts is the poems attract interesting, talented writers. One brief connection I have benefited from comes from a response to the previous posting about bad news exhaustion. I will share a quote from this poet’s website because the precise writing sets the questions of…

  • Good, Grief, and the Exhaustion of Bad News

    I sense a bad news exhaustion in myself as well as readers. Writing bad news in bold lettering does little to nothing to counter the bad news of this day. The new AI enhanced cartoons about the current leaders are sufficient at best for a smoldering chuckle before one realizes you only feel worse for…

  • Good, AI, and When a Secretive Force becomes a Secret Police

    When you hear of secret deportation flights, plain clothes agents, masked enforcers, cyber investigations and attempts by government to breach the the firewalls of citizen privacy in Social Security, IRS, and Human Services, than the current secretive enforcement campaign can be counted on to become a secret police.  This is the cyber age of being…

  • Good and What to Believe in the Age of Clickbait

    There comes a time when one has to believe your eyes and if you can’t take your eyes to the scene you must believe the eyes of the credible people who are more like you than the propaganda machine we call the news. Clickbait is clickbait.  Many a fish in the stream has learned the…

  • Good, and Kidnapping History

    The is a problem with foisting the truth of history and replacing it with a knockoff.  Truth is like a snowball in the child’s hot hands who takes the snowball into the warm house to show Mom.  It melts, disappears and returns a year later as it was, reassembled in the first snow. Whatever the…

  • Good, Gold, and Gilding: A Deception

    The Gilded Age entertainments so popular these days, are in reality, shows of obscenely wealthy people living in golden bird cages mounted on the backs of the working poor and middle class.  Those glittery people’s lives are made possible by cash strapped people  who strain their shortened lives with dwindling options.  While our current leader…

  • Good, Thriving and The Cost of “I”

    “The master trend in recent Western culture has been to emancipate the individual from the group, and now we are paying the social and spiritual price.”   David Brooks, New York Times It is as if a meteorite just hit North America and the catastrophe goes by the name of our current President. This meteorite nearly…

  • Good, Honor, and Evil: The Brothers at Odds

    When a father, husband or son executes a young woman for disobedience to the family’s honor code, whatever that code is, how does the word ‘honor’ fit with that killing? This is a question some countries and cultures are attempting to answer to this day. Perhaps we in the west just shake our heads in…