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  • Good, Star Wars and being ‘Woke’

    Star Wars has provided an oddly prophetic theme in entertainment and science fiction which may account for both its own lasting popularity and a basis for the current confusing question of the day: “why don’t we feel like the heroes anymore?”.    We love Star Wars because the gifted, under armed, scruffy guy and his…

  • Good, Human Rights, Aspiration and Grit

    Be it Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, or Disability Rights, at their outset, all of those movements had little to no federal support, legal basis, or even local support. The true broad scope of movements of human rights seem always to begin in the home, family, church and or micro-communities of compassion called ‘the association’. This…

  • Good, Pope Francis and the Price of Caring

    A lot will be written and said in the next few months about Pope Francis, his life, death, and work. In this writer’s less expansive world I was drawn to this man and his message simply because he seemed to both care for and love humanity. I say care first because it feels these days…

  • Good, Easter and all the Stories

    Stories have been told since the dawn of consciousness. Good stories are a healing force. Easter is one of the good stories linked to a new season carrying a truth that spreadsheets, white papers and formulas can’t reach. What ever you believe or don’t this commemoration strides across history as a good story, a story…

  • Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership

    Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism.  Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream.  Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult and violation. Living as we do today we run the risk of sanctioning violence thus…

  • Good Grief, Good Guilt, and Good Friday

    Tomorrow is called Good Friday in the tradition I was raised.  As I child I was exposed repeatedly to the Catholic “Stations of the Cross” which, for those of other persuasions, is a ritualized service commemorating the Passion of Jesus.  I learned from that service very early that adults can be cruel in the extreme…

  • Good, Law and Order, and Simplicity as Paradox

    How can one achieve simplicity in a complex society? Is it a choice to keep it simple or is it an obligation to wade into the complexities of the human drama. Each reader will have their opinion as does this writer, but lets look deeper. A hint: the deeper you go the simpler it gets.…

  • Good, Us and Them, and When One is too Many

    When did it happen that a person in the United States can be arrested, no charges presented, and disappear unrepresented and disconnected from friends, family or community. Such behavior was once the exclusive domain of underdeveloped country’s possessed by ruthless dictators. And yet, now, in this country we all love, the dark art of disappearing…

  • Good and Dignity, the 7th, Last, and Bannister of All the Next Democracy’s Virtues

    You need go no further than the dictionary get a grasp on the radical meaning of dignity but I think I like Wikipedia’s treatment of the word serves best; Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.  The seventh proposed virtue for a citizen supporting democracy is: The…

  • Good, Democracy’s 6th Virtue: Exercising the Right to Vote, and What Weren’t We thinking?

    Oddly enough complaining about election outcomes, while not illegal, should probably should have some liability attached for those people who could have voted and didn’t.  There is simply no excuse.  And then there were the people who voted based on the surface information of the campaigns which is by nature unreliable. Voting only based on…