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Good and When a Man can’t Lose
Every parent sooner or later must teach their children you can’t win them all. As a parent you endure the child’s tears and encourage a different approach and wait for the insight to take hold. We all have loses that shape us as we grow. Perhaps we might take that child out for ice cream…
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Good, and the Deaths of Innocents on American Soil
Our President and his advisors were upset when the their policies and outrageous, targeted deportation goals resulted in the deaths of innocent people on American soil. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land. Sadly the president’s outrage was not over the deaths of the innocents, but the agency’s reasonable efforts being…
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Good and the Slaughter of Innocents
Recently in Sudan, 60,000 inhabitants in the Sudanese city of El Fasher were simply slaughtered. How is that possible? The arms industry and its many international branches of enterprise make it possible and our administration’s indifference to such horrifying mayhem enables. Silence is compliance. Some of that silence may be connected to our leader’s lucrative…
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Good, the Brown Dandelion, and a Bedeviled Culture of Engineered Hatred
On a walk around a lake the other day this writer came upon a very young girl about 5 years old offering a look at her brown sort of tired dandelion to any walker coming by. Her precious flower was the joy of the moment and she wanted to share it to all comers. Her…
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Good and Words Better than Mine: Working Humility: Poet Ada Limon
. . . You there standing in the crowd I’m not proud. The stove can’t boast of the meal. . . Ada Limon: excerpted from the poem The Noisiness of Sleep from the book Bright Dead Things The poet can say in one short line what I can’t say in one whole page. Just a few good words…
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Good and from Christian to “Secular Global Liberalism”; an American Fallacy
This writer understands that our vice president is concerned about a drift from Christian civilization to secular global liberalism. His concern is our nation is in a deterioration of Christian values, morality and family. This writer finds it odd since the very Constitution to which he vowed fidelity on a Bible was built on the anticipation…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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