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Good, Mercy, Forgiveness and Grace in 2026
Mercy is the softening that arises when love sees our suffering, our limits, and our humanity — and chooses not to punish, abandon, or condemn. (Author unknown) Yes I understand we are currently living under a rule and culture that finds the above kind of language, soft, prosaic, and pointless. Out of a hardened heart, …
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Good, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lie
Different words of deception carry varying levels of gravity. A fib is when you tell your parents you have finished your homework when in fact you only finished by closing the school books. You will live with the consequences the next day in class. This writer fibbed his way through the early years, and had…
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Good, The American Revolution and Devolution
PBS has released a Ken Burns Documentary on the American Revolution and I was shocked at how important that piece of our history is to the times we are living in 2026. I suspect some of our current turning of our backs on authentic American history might be partially motivated by shame for how far…
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Good and “My Child is Being Poisoned”. When to Intervene?
For a quick short answer I urgently suggest “RIGHT NOW”. What parent wouldn’t immediately rescue their young child from death or life long injury seeing their child in imminent danger? But suppose there were two children and it was your neighbor’s child drinking the poison, Would you say: “Oh well, it is only little Freddie,…
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Good and the Joy of “What Else is True”
A woman who brought aid in the form peer to peer counseling to world disaster areas taught this writer a question that has helped me and so many other people in a troubled world: And so what else is true in your life? Her work was in earthquake, war, flood, and tsunami catastrophes and the…
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Good, the Parasite and the Public Ethic
A good parasite does not kill its host or at least not immediately. A good parasite knows at some primitive level that for as long as the host lives, the nutrition flows. But like all other communities of life, some parasites in the infected host are ‘wiser’ than others and sooner or later the host…
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Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier
True poverty reduces one to their true values but poverty is such a hard edged teacher. One can easily present as a good person if one has sufficient resources, but obeying your own authority regarding the values of good from a state of deep poverty is the ultimate test of character and integrity. This isn’t…
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Good, Executive Orders, and Dictating a Democracy
Imagine if you lived on the 10th floor of an apartment complex and the children of the vertical community devised a game which involved pulling the fire alarms for the amusement of watching people scramble. We would stop that kind of vandalism in a heart beat. But here we have a president using the fire…
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Good and the Vampires of Grief
In death we are all human. No matter how you cut and define your life this writer feels on solid ground in saying that dying and the losses that come to those connected to the dying need to be treated as a sacred protected space even if you are not a believer. Any person who…
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Good, Xenophobia and the Gold of Common Ground
The price of gold has had a wild ride in these contemporary economies. That is largely because with gold we can fake it but we can’t make it (yet). Like gold, common ground exists and in terms of value to us and our futures, its value exceeds gold compounded by common grounds growing scarcity. We…
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