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  • Good, Gratitude, and Thanksgiving in Thankless Times

    Setting aside a historic era that seems to be fighting gratitude I would like to start with a few words about thanksgiving and gratitude. I grew up in dry-land farming country where irrigation was a critical part of life. As a child I never knew where the ‘mother ditch’ got its water, but on a…

  • Good, Debate, Lies, and Moral Equivalency

    When did it happen that a person could prevail in a debate simply because that person got away with the most effective lies, omissions, and immoral moral equivalencies? If you watched the US political debates this year, there must have been a new book of debate rules published since I was young and on a…

  • Good, Inconvenient Truth, and the Clearcut of Human Services

    With the current administration no one can predict with any certainty what is going to happen. The pre election promises and proposals imply a concerted effort to clearcut segments of human supports and services. Remember what we learned after achieving the capacity to clear cut a forest. The consequences of forest clearcuts beyond a certain…

  • Good, Gender, Abortion, and the Danger of Mixed Memes

    Initially many of us spent a bit of time wondering what a ‘meme’ was, but after a while it was too late in smart company to actually ask: ‘what the heck is a meme?’ without appearing a little dull. We should have and must now. Merriam Webster defines a meme as: an amusing or interesting item…

  • Good and “Only a Prayer Left”

    People say the political realm is ultimately about the money and power and it would seem those two forces have played a large role in how our nation has made its decisions in this period of history. But not until this election, when we elect the people we have, has it been so clear that…

  • Good and the Tyranny of Need

    We live in a culture where we have given other people permission to engineer and impose upon us what they need our personal needs to be. When we submit to that contract, advertisers and influences own a big part of the quality of our lives. If violence is a threat to agency and efficacy, being…

  • Good, Tolerance and the Boulder of Violence

    This Project’s focus on good cannot have much validity unless we address the edges of tolerance and intolerance.  The world has too much evidence of intolerable violence in motion right now.  Our country is going to be pushed to the edges of many people’s tolerance as the future unfolds.  I can only describe why The…

  • Good, Suffering, and the Reconstruction of a Culture

    This nation of the United States appears to this writer to have a medical system that leads in the world in reducing the experience of physical pain.  The tragic irony is the United States just might also be a world leader in suffering as well. Maybe we should start here with the natures of the…

  • Good, the Inventory of Loss, and Resistance

    The Morning After This writer predicted that half our nation would be suffering grief no matter who won the election. I am now in the minority of grief while apparently a majority are celebrating. This is called democracy, and presumably to model the practice of democracy one must endure the status and suffering of minority…

  • Good, Duty of Witness, and the Nation’s Next Story

    This concludes this election series of posts. In not too long the votes will be counted and possibly be in the process of being recounted and re-recounted. The possibility of violence exists coming from the transfer of power; a feeling originating not out pessimism, but rather out of one candidates’s promises. But whatever comes next,…