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“One lives a good life through making good decisions and continually going to that place in you where you find your good.”

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The Next Democracy

Given the critical times we are in this Project has proposed a very short, succinct body of language to re-introduce the idea of democracy to the 21st Century. We no longer can afford to compete for points on the scale of mutual hatred. We must find language that addresses the critical stress point of democracy in our world today. Click below, read, comment and do a pre-vote if you see something to which you can commit.

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  • Good, Cruelty and Uncertain Faith

    We live in times of certainty, hence division and conflict. With certainty comes righteousness. The first cousin of righteousness is all too often cruelty. In this post I will address cruelty of two kinds; intentional and ignorant. Intentional cruelty is… Continue reading

  • Good, Identity and Democracy

    How many people do you actually know personally who are raising their children to be overtly cruel, exploitive, cold hearted pragmatists?  How many of your close friends, in quiet moments  of reflection, perhaps after a shared meal, have casually disclosed:” you… Continue reading

  • Good, Truth, Harm, and our Spiraling Violence

    With this project called The Good Decision I have found myself deeply wound up in the profound, frequently contradictory difficulties presented by the word ‘good’. In my own journey I hold within me a conscious commitment to three attributes; forgiveness,… Continue reading

  • January 6 Witnessing and Watching

    In concluding my posting on  the Euvaldi/Buffalo tragedies I  said there was a difference between witnessing and watching.  ‘ Witnessing’ is a slightly damaged word.  In some religious contexts it means conforming through personal testimony to an external authority or… Continue reading

  • The Young, The Old and the Wisdom of the Middle Path

    This post is inspired by an article in the New York Times written by Yuval Levin entitled: Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old? (June 3, 2022). As you will see it is a question… Continue reading

  • Poetry, Medicine and the Border of Good

    Having found myself  in quicksand as I work the nuances of good for this project, I find my range of considerations regarding good  has been expanded by that infinitely adaptive form of writing we call poetry .  My spouse has been… Continue reading

  • Grief and the Guns of Euvaldi and Buffalo

    Awash in national grief and a strain of simple shame we search for words to describe what happened in Euvaldi, Texas and Buffalo a short week ago. The actual reality of wholly innocent children at that age along with their… Continue reading

  • Acting out of Good, Community and Democracy

    This is a second blog inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s article WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID It’s not just a phase published by Atlantic monthly April 11, 2022. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist… Continue reading

  • Good and Anger

    Jonathan Haidt recently wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly called: WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID  It’s not just a phase.   I was so impressed by Jonathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind  Why Good  People… Continue reading

  • What Good is Writing into the Wind?

    I frequently receive spam email telling me my following is not strong and of course they have just the products to correct that problem for my website. Occasionally I receive encouraging notes in my spam folder letting me know they… Continue reading

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