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  • Good and Titrating Shame for Oneself and a Nation

    In making good decisions, an important indicator that the next move you are making is going to be harmful or at least bad for you and most likely others is the sense of shame. Shame, like anger is a short term emotional toxin that warns you not to proceed with a decisions or, if too…

  • Good, Genius, and Words Better than Mine: Billy Collins, guest poet

    Genius by Billy Collins (excerpted) Was what they called you in High School if you tripped on a shoe lace in the hall and all your books went flying. Or if you walked into an open locker door, you would be known as Einstein who imagined riding a street car into infinity Later, genius became…

  • Good and Herd Mentality Leadership

    Common sense tells us when a train is already coming off the tracks it is not a good time the hitch a ride on it. So why is the United States hitching a ride on the aggressions of Russia and Israel?  This nation once had a mind of its own on a mission of freedom,…

  • Good, Forgiveness, the 3R’s of Tyranny and Second Chances

    Never has the country ever had a president who needed and still has needs forgiveness more than our current president. Never has an individual apparently received more unconditional forgiveness from his support base than this same politician. There must be so something particularly morally wrong when a person so blessed with the benefits of tolerance…

  • Good, History’s Verdict, and Words Better than Mine. Tracy K Smith Poe

    Excerpts from the poem New Road Station by Tracy K Smith (for people in a hurry I tend to brutally excerpt poems with apologies to the author, but in the hopes new readers will head in their direction) History is in a hurry. It moves like a woman Corralling her children onto a crowded Bus.…

  • Good and the Devil You Think you Know

    The easiest thing in the world is to accumulate evidence supporting your hatred of another person in the political realm. At the same time it is almost impossible to imagine how you yourself became the devil other people hate. Yet, understanding ones own offenses is exactly what needs to be done here and at this…

  • Good and Mistaking Wax for Bronze in Leadership

    We have too many people in high places who have discovered you can be in high places wielding immense power for a few billion dollars flying on wings of wax and feathers.  They, along with us who put them there, are currently learning the lessons of the ancients. All wealth is “bling” on the scale…

  • Good, AI, and Dime Store Demi-Gods Playing with Fire

    Yes, calling billionaires Dime Store-Demi Gods may seem a stretch, but in terms of wisdom and caring this writer has no trouble with the radical demotion.  AI has been called the God Machine because of predictions this unbridled super-artificial-amoral intelligence could bring our civilization to an end if not end human life altogether. No one…

  • Good, and Everyone’s Shape Shifting Mind . . . Sunday Words of Rest

    Dog Years by Billy Collins Today I turned  420 in dog years so I have decided to take myself  for a long walk on the parth around the lake and when I get back home I will jump up on my chest lick my nose, ears, and eyelids while yelling at myself to get down. …

  • Good and Congress’s lmpotence in Crisis: A Call for Presence, Help, and Hope

    How would you feel if you opened your heart and spilled your troubles to a person who could help and that person just turned around and walked out the door mumbling something about needing a break?  I suspect you might be feeling hurt, angry, humiliated, unvalued, and unfriended. Our democracy teeters on the brink, and Congress…