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Good, Kind, Nice, and Nonsense
For me this project is an effort to rescue good from its relatives nice and kind. Nice is the form of manners that avoids conflict through the use of faint praise. “Nice car!” one might say to the friend who… Continue reading
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Good Discernment and the Ground of Our Being
I have taken a break from my postings as of late to gather perspective. The Good Decision as a project needs to better communicate something that is critical to the times we are in. Thus far, while the focus has… Continue reading
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Good, Artificial Intelligence, and Faith
I concluded my last over-long post with the sentence: “Our world’s trouble right now is not that AI is becoming more competitively human; it is that humans are becoming more like AI”. I work each day with a Rubik’s cube knowing that… Continue reading
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Good, Discernment, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
We will all have to sort through the problems that are building around the rise of artificial intelligence. We are approaching a time when we will have to take a more critical look at our own bias relating to coveted… Continue reading
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Good, Activism, Empathy and the Peacemakers
Author’s disclosure: nonviolence, kindness, communications are some attributes that comprise my Sense of Good. Please remember all attributes are, in part, aspirational. I am a student of these attributes and certainly not a master. Are we living in the age… Continue reading
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Good and Political Gangrene
Already in daily life the political conversations in the homes, streets and in the air, are positioning for advantage. More often than not I find myself deeply disturbed by the content of these anticipatory political forays. I want to chuck… Continue reading
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Developmental Community Part IV: The Mentor Relationship
The mentor relationship is often experienced a relationship of grace and miracle. I encourage the reader to list the names of the people who were these ‘gift relationships’ of mentoring and use the inventory to stay tuned to the good… Continue reading
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Developmental Community Part III: Vocational Community
The Vocational Relationship represents the second ring of the Developmental triad in this series of Postings. I apologize for the slightly longer Post here, but the vocational is often the least understood in terms of its relationship to both Nurturance… Continue reading
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Developmental Community Part II: Nurturance Community
In Part I of this series I talked about how if things do not follow a healthy course we can develop tragic scotomas or blinds spots to our sense of Good, which includes blindness to the experience of trust, if… Continue reading
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Developmental Community Part I: Good’s Scotoma
Oddly enough, one way of looking at the developmental cycle of the human is to see birth and early growth as a slow, steady separation journey of creation from the origin’s pure, sacred inarticulate unity of infancy while maintaining over… Continue reading










