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  • Good, Fascism, Socialism and Play Ground Insults

    Lobbing gross insults across the line is a pathetic way to run a campaign. We hear people shouting ‘fascist’, ‘socialist’, ‘communist’ and so forth while many have only a vague idea of what is contained in these exchanges.  The current acceptance of criminal behavior, playground name calling, and a willingness of so many highly placed people…

  • Good, Hubris, the Waxed Emperor, and the Mentor

    The myth of Icarus is a cautionary tale for all times.  Flying too close to the sun with wax wings has predictable results. This is very much a tale for our time. Myths are truth that instruct with undeniable, universally accepted facts organized brilliantly on a storyline. In this case, youthful hubris results in the…

  • Good Future Hope and the New Vote Market

    My generation, like all generations, is not innocent.  We accomplished some good things in our time, but we also seem to have not considered sufficiently the needs of future generations with the committed energy needed. Many indigenous societies and cathedral builders lived with their community’s future firmly embedded in mind and soul.  All we, in…

  • Good, Power and the Human Scale

    Over a life time I have come to understand the famous or influential people I have both admired and encountered as regular human beings, full of vanities, foibles, contradictions, heroic actions, kindness, cruelty, betrayal and often capable of great empathy and equilibrium under duress.  In short they turned out to be people on the human…

  • Good, Delusion, Narrative and Numbers

    When it comes to politics or business, some times the numbers work for you, and sometimes the narrative is the wind in your sails. Either way, narrative and numbers are a single sword with two equally sharp edges. In one of my professional lives I did statewide needs assessments and insisted that the work be…

  • Good, Integrity and Stolen Stories

    For the duration of our existence our bodies and senses continuously take in a massive storm of information . In a near miraculous 300 milii-seconds or so our personal process sorts out all of it. Most information is assigned to neurological oblivion. Our brain curates only the smallest amount for us to create the conscious…

  • Good, War, and the new Escalating Stalemate

    As we pass through year one of the middle east conflict I have to wonder if perhaps we have a third party in these tragic wars of our new young century. That third party would be an arms industry that needs to clear its inventory. Who could have imagined the Ukraine/Russia conflict would grind on…

  • Good, Lies, Connection and Crime

    This project tries to help people ground their decisions in the truth starting with discerning one’s own truth.  Good decisions rely on truth.  A fact alone is not a truth and sadly lies often contain facts.  In some ways, the truth is the sum of the facts plus truth’s discernment, but truth is never separate…

  • Good and Cruelty’s Enjoyment

    I keep coming back to the conversation I had with an older man in a park in Chicago. One of those tentative explorations between two people enjoying the view. He asked me why I wouldn’t vote for the candidate he was considering. I liked the lonely old guy so I really considered my response and…

  • Good and the Arc of Future

    Over a lifetime it has been my experience to be able to feel the future coming. This intuition has been both a burden and and gift. A burden because the feeling is not paired with the gift of actual prediction so it is difficult to separate mood from gift. I can and have made reasonable…