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  • Good, Despair, and Broken Narratives

    There is no lack of opportunity to feel anger and despair. We live in a time where such emotions thrive. The rage of this historic moment spreads like mold, first sticking and disarming the very words we need to find our own version of faith, hope and joy. Now those last three words seem to…

  • Good and Once Again, More Violence

    Entering the realm of violence is a one way journey. Crossing that threshold you cannot turn around and undo the the explosion of consequences that ripple down the stream and across the pond expanding the center of the violent act. If you are the one who violates, whatever the justification or lack thereof, the fabric…

  • Good, Penalty and Civil Disobedience

    David French in his NYT article (Colleges have Gone Off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out) on college protests quoted Martin Luther King in his treatment of the conduct of civil disobedience. He writes: “the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described the principle perfectly: “When one breaks the law that conscience tells him…

  • Good, E Pluribus Unum, and Majority Rule

    The idea of e pluribus unum or ‘one out of many’ not only has roots in, but is in fact, ‘the root’ of the idealism underlying the tradition of the United States. Majority rule is a rough approximation of a solution to the stubborn persisting reality of plurality. By plurality I mean this country’s governance is designed…

  • Good, Efficacy, and Authoritarian Government

    I have carefully walked around all the ‘isms” on this website because I feel we need to speak from the heart sometimes or, as you may know by now, respond freely with discipline to our feeling states. Joy, inspiration, rage, and depression are, for example, feeling states unfettered in our souls by ideology. The Good…

  • Good, Paradox and Oblivion

    What is the difference between paradox and nonsense? I have listened to any number of lectures, talks, and simple conversations and walked away simply shaking my head wondering if there was any sense in what I just heard regarding the use of the term paradox. Merely matching up mutually exclusive phenomenon and then declaring them…

  • Good, Accountability, Justice

    We have had two trials this month of national importance. In both trials it seems justice was served, but to what end? Both parties, former President and current President’s son were found guilty by a jury. Both parties face sentencing which is a guideline enriched form of judgement in itself. This is why we have…

  • Good, AI, and the daughter of this earth

    Nouf Aljowaysir is a young woman who lived Saudi Arabia until she moved to the United States, who like so many people in this age of disapora finds herself no longer in the country of her birth, and feeling a need that needs to be met.  In that search, she produced a twelve minute documentary published…

  • Good and Moral Humiliation

    The only thing good and greed share is their first letter g. The accumulation of great personal wealth beyond a certain measure should be humiliating, embarrassing and shameful. Pull back the blankets on today’s international tragedies and the disparity of wealth joined with an ambition driving people to accomplish personal accumulations of wealth colors everything.…

  • Good and the Work Our Age

    I heard a promotion for a workshop on the topic of ‘nonduality’. The gist was that word nonduality was catching fire and people were flocking to the resources and readings regarding that term. Imagine going to the average coffee shop that serves only two forms of brew; caffeinated and non caffeinated and then ask the…