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  • Good, False Morality, and Friends and Enemies,

    Morality in its natural state is a set of behavioral expectations arising from the social mores of a culture or community.  Religions also impact morality, and each informs their own practitioners of their specific  moral instructions through their sources of authority such as a the Bible, Torah , Koran, Covenants or the Eight Fold Path of…

  • Good from the Soul of a Nobel Peace Prize Recipient (Maria Ressa)

    Maria Ressa is speaking to a Vatican audience as a journalist who knows the Meta-trance and has suffered in her quest to find and speak the truth. This project’s posts recently introduced the idea of a ‘Meta-trance’ which speaks to the unique capacity of current social media to literally entrance an entire culture to any…

  • Good and the New Tai Chi of Resistance

    When I read yesterday that liberal resistance to far right policies is at an all time low for some reason I was not surprised. We are in a new era. Resistance has just swapped out all of its price tags. The current administration has raised the price of noncompliance. When you consider the new far…

  • Good, Sanctuary, and the Next Subtle Sacrilege

    The idea of Sanctuary in churches goes back deep into the history of western civilization. Much can be said, but essentially there was a consensus agreement that armed civil authority would not enter sacred space without the consent of keepers of that space. In its purest form Sanctuary bought time to negotiate a more humane…

  • Good and Difficult Tasks at the Crossroad

    The tasks that are entrusted to us are often difficult.  Almost everything that matters is difficult, and everything matters.     From Letters to a Young Poet`.     “A Year with Rilke;  Daily Readings from The Best of Rainer Maria Rilke    Translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows. It gets more and more apparent that…

  • Good, Rev Martin Luther King, and the Vocation of ‘Unenforceable Obligations’

    “I’ve been to the mountaintop And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”    MLK “True integration will be achieved by true neighbors who are willingly obedient to…

  • Good and Better Words than Mine

    I think I can give you, the reader, and me, a writer a break now and then by simply sharing powerful messages from better minds.  In this case Poet Laureate Joy Harjo writes about monsters and the forms they take even in this age of ‘rationality’. When I skim the media I feel like I…

  • Good, Nurturance, Flirting with a Painful Disaster and the Long Game

    For many reading this website the short game is already lost for at least four to ten years. The Nurturance Community is part of the developmental long game that could occupy us who are living now in a multi-generational mission of good while preparing the way for our loved future generations. This is a slightly…

  • Good and the World of Hungry Stereotypes

    (a brief digression in prep for Inauguration Day) At some deep, embarrassing, defensive level this writer sometimes feels made to feel like he lives in one of the most disliked demographics in the world today; the older, white, middle class American male. I think I am feeling the disquieting bite of a ‘counter-stereotype’. The point…

  • Good, Nurturance and Cultural Suicide.

    The quality and strength of the  nurturance communities a culture builds and sustains around the health of it’s future generations is the predictor of that culture’s future, if there is to be a future.  Our culture is in trouble because the data tells us our children are in trouble. Too many of our children are…