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  • Good, Wealth, Capitalism and Anti-gravity

    Galleries are not the engine of the art world. Artists and their art are. Culture only trickles up, and money never trickles down.  A comment by Lari Pittman from Los Angeles in an NYT letter to the editor. Here are a few easily forgotten facts of life in a capitalist, transactional society.  Capital, which is…

  • Good, and Words Better Than Mine from Ranier Maria Rilke

    Sometimes when life gets just a notch too crazy it no longer feels as if it matters if you are a believer or not, religious or not, powerful or powerless, vulnerable or safe, right or left, extremist, radical or common sense, MAGA or progressive.  You just need  wisdom and support.  Woven in the foundations of…

  • Good, Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, and Pavlov’s Dogs

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov developed the principles of classical conditioning that have led to the further development of innumerable behavioral therapies that still serve us well. Leave it to this administration to use the principles of classical conditioning to reverse the process and use Pavlov’s principles not to heal America, but use classical conditioning to get…

  • Good, Nonsense, and Designing our Exit from these Hot Times

    Rated PG-13 for mild peril and mass casualties. Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes. In theaters. This rating summary was given for the new movie Supergirl and this writer is pretty sure the people who wrote it either missed the irony or thought is was a good joke.  Presumably “mass casualties” is a genre of…

  • Good and the Disease of Insatiable Wealth

    Dr. David Lay Williams is a professor of political science who studies the role of economic inequality in the history of political thought. He wrote the following quote as a guest writer in the New York Times addressing ancient concerns regarding the super wealthy. “For Plato, the source of inequality was a disease of the…

  • Good, Human Connection, and Social Capital

    What is Social Capital?  Is it the ultimate expression of capitalism, or is it an organic dimension of universal human development and thriving?  Let’s start with the idea off social capital as a misnomer.  Poor people, and I mean desperately poor people, often congregate in creative ways to multiply what little they have living in…

  • Good, Courage and a Nation Cowering

    The Supreme Court in yesterday’s rulings on immigration has paved the way for the United States, a nation known for courage and innovation, to cower before the world and betray the very channel of of energy that built this nation; immigration.  Our President is on the verge of bringing this nation to a posture of…

  • Good and the Abuse of Understanding

    Our latest war seems to have stalled out in a Memorandum of Misunderstanding where both sides realize they cannot win so they are trying to divide up the losses.In this writers experience most “memorandums of understanding” in any administration were Rorschach tests of language designed to disguise terminal disagreement on the core issues. That is…

  • Good, the 20th Century “Magna Carta” for the World and the Child in America

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the United Nations in 1948.  That Declaration has been described as the Magna Carta of the Twentieth Century. The quote below is taken from the Convention on the Rights of the Child which followed the ratification of the Universal Declaration.  Considering what is happening on the streets of…

  • Good and Washington’s Resignation: A Moral Lesson Forgotten

    Heather Cox Richardson, in her Letters From an American, a model column writer for all writers summarized beautifully the Revolutionary War that brought our country into being . Here is a direct quote from the that column in her June 14th 2026 column . “In 1817, given the choice of subjects to paint for the…