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Good, Right or Left and the Radical Heart
The midterms are coming up and once again it looks like the fabric of unity is ripping apart under the stress to the political binaries. The nation is in halves and the parties are themselves breaking again into halves. Unity is in human terms a radical commitment. Infants are introduced to life with one heart…
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Good and Poisoning it Forward
This writer remembers better days for America where generous people performed acts of mercy and generosity, not for personal gain, but to pay it forward to the next generation. We all basked in the warm glow of acts that ‘payed it forward’. Those more generous times were not perfect by a long shot, but they…
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Good and Three C’s in Lasting Hard Times: An Uncredentialed Homily for a Stuggle
The three Cs mental health in lasting hard times are Connection, Caring, and Comedy. If you are not formally diagnosed in these profoundly difficult days, for the average American, these three Cs add ballast to your boat in the storm we are destined to live through. This of course is only advice from a relatively…
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Good, Power, Minds and Hearts
The one good lesson that can be learned from this era is there is no hammer big enough or power sufficient to overcome the power of good minds and powerful hearts. Nations will concede a lot but they ultimately won’t concede their minds and hearts. Our current leadership can’t seem to wrap their comprehension around…
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Good and Playing a Losing Hand against a Cheater
This writer learned early in his career if you don’t have the votes you don’t have the power no matter what kind of rhetoric you can marshal. In the games of cards one can almost feel a losing hand as you examine the chaos just dealt to you. You need to either change those cards…
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Good, Jelly Beans, AI, and The Odyssey
I can remember my love of jelly beans as a child. The more the better was my approach. This writer can also remember the stomach aches when he got more than he was allowed, acquired through nefarious means. As I grew up, I came to understand a simple rule, almost physically true; things that are…
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Good and Science in Handcuffs
Many of us, including myself are alive on this planet today thanks to the work of science. Never in this nation’s history has science ever been anything but the frontier of human knowledge. Never that is until this administration that has demonstrated a pathological fear of inconvenient truth and science. Bad news for this administration…
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Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses
Imagine in a storm a tree falls and breaks the high power electrical line to the hospital. Not only that, but the backup generators are underwater and the trucks with repair supplies can’t make it to the line break. The foolish inexperienced apprentice lineman says “no problem” grabbing both ends of the of the severed…
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Good and The Three Minds of America
No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting with the first two weaklings, the Warring Mind person lives in a complex world that…
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Good, and Serious Levity in Resistance: Words Better than Mine, Poet: Theodore Roethke
It is Sunday. The demands for writing yet more on the egregious behavior of our current administration is almost compulsive for this writer. But the spiritual wisdom of many of our powerful religious traditions instructs us to take a breath on one of the week’s days and rest. The bombast and lies will still be…
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