This Good Decision Project has been occasionally criticized for its nearly singular focus on the word “Good”.  The criticism suggests such a focus ignores what is bad, evil or just uncomfortable in this world.  I have found just the opposite… Continue reading

Humble people and cultures know intuitively there is no perfect good. Some cultures guard against the very idea of human perfection for spiritual and or mental health reasons.  Truly resilient cultures also tend to cultivate a dry, more often than… Continue reading

Back in the old days of comedy there was a routine that employed the line “remember darling it is more important to look good than to feel good”.  Somehow this parody got laughs then, but no more. Greed thrives on… Continue reading

As my sense of good evolved and matured it came to me that revenge and retribution are great ways to carve away at your future assigning mortgages on the attention and intention of your aspirations. Which is why I can’t… Continue reading

My decision for the top of the ticket for this election is made and it isn’t even a close call. Presumably I should settle back into the easy chair of identity and marinate in a quiet consoling rage as I… Continue reading

Senator Christopher Murphy of Connecticut was recently highlighted In a New York Times article because he has been warning the right and the left leaning portions of both parties that there may be a deeper component to the current American… Continue reading

The frequent blending of the terms extremist and radical makes no sense to me.  I do not believe an extremist of any persuasion can be radical.  To take an extreme view implies an equally extreme reduction of the scope of… Continue reading

Good and charisma should fit together like sock and shoe but somehow it isn’t that simple.  Charisma can mean charming, persuasive and compelling in the purely secular sense, but it is also a very close relative to charisma’s first meaning… Continue reading

This is a summer of waiting for Godot.  There is amongst the participants of this democracy a certain tension in the air.  We are in an election year where the narrative has set our worlds on edge and as the… Continue reading

I have come to accept that growing old is just that; one’s body is preparing itself. and hopefully you, to dissolve into the future. Possibly I should say ‘into the present’ but either way the question comes up; how can… Continue reading