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Good, Your Garden, Their Forest, and Our Next Better Democracy.
If you have ever planted a garden you know the optimism of green spring day shoots clearing the soil level, and the heartbreak of the first hail storm. Never mind all the bugs, snakes and other four legged pests feasting on your sacred garden space without your permission. So it is with your mind and…
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Good, Humility, Protest and the Performance of Life
Life is not a performance and we are not living in a movie. Rather in The Good Decision life is a gift and we are all enmeshed in a life experience that stretches back into deep history and portends forward well into the future. Our individual stories are either negatively charged dust or the nano…
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Good, Nationalism, Religion, and the Dance Hall of the Dead
This will be short. Religion and Patriotism get a bad look when they dance with Nationalism. In this macabre Dance Hall of the Dead and Dangerous Partners, the winner is always that wicked conductor called War. India, Pakistan, Gaza, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and the United States need to switch partners if ever there is to…
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Good, the Breaks of Rigidity, and the Peaceful Flex
Things that are rigid break under duress. One of the arts of life is found in the flexibility of the organic. Yes, a tree seems rigid at the trunk, but upon closer inspection the life of that tree is more closely related to the art of the flex found in its limber limbs and trunk…
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Good, Empathy, and Empathy’s Abuse
Michael Ventura, author of Applied Empathy, offered an interesting take on the subject of empathy in his article in the New York Times entitled The Dark Side of Empathy (May 4, 2025). He described two forms of empathy; one being the ability feel what others feel and the second being a cognitive capacity to understand…
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Good, Despair, Hope and Faith All the Way Through
When outrage burns hot, despair in the cooling embers is often not far behind. Is it possible to talk about faith without hanging the word up in the tangles of religious debate? Short answer; yes. Richard Rohr says: “Faith is its own end”. . . Faith is the opposite of resentment, cynicism and negativity. Faith…
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Good, Dictators, Billionaires and a Servant Leader
The trick of a successful dictatorship is to reduce all considerations to the balance of power and then grab power at all costs and any consequence. If you have the power you can do anything you want and usually what all dictators want is what you had before they got the power to take it…
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Good, The “We of Us”, and The Perilous Course of Administration
The death of Brian Thompson has bothered me more deeply than I could have anticipated. The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote, administering human affairs sails perilously close to evil. As a former administrator this writer knows exactly what she was talking about. As I have mentioned in these postings my life was threatened over the course…
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Good, and Falling through the Cracks
Where does one go when one “falls through the cracks”. This expression has been used by caregivers for decades to describe what happens to their children or elderly parents when for some reason the needs of their charges are not met by public policy or a relief program. In a much better era in America if…
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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…
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