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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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Choose the virtues for the next democracy. Setting aside race, creed, status, gender, what citizen virtues could you gather around to help build the next majority for our democracy? We provide a template for you to consider and decide.

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Good and the Joy of "What Else is True"Good and the Joy of "What Else is True"December 24, 2025robertjahner
Good and "My Child is Being Poisoned". When to Intervene?Good and "My Child is Being Poisoned". When to Intervene?December 26, 2025robertjahner
Good, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lieGood, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lieDecember 30, 2025robertjahner

  • Good and What to Believe in the Age of Clickbait

    There comes a time when one has to believe your eyes and if you can’t take your eyes to the scene you must believe the eyes of the credible people who are more like you than the propaganda machine we… Continue reading

  • Good, and Kidnapping History

    The is a problem with foisting the truth of history and replacing it with a knockoff.  Truth is like a snowball in the child’s hot hands who takes the snowball into the warm house to show Mom.  It melts, disappears… Continue reading

  • Good, Gold, and Gilding: A Deception

    The Gilded Age entertainments so popular these days, are in reality, shows of obscenely wealthy people living in golden bird cages mounted on the backs of the working poor and middle class.  Those glittery people’s lives are made possible by… Continue reading

  • Good, Thriving and The Cost of “I”

    “The master trend in recent Western culture has been to emancipate the individual from the group, and now we are paying the social and spiritual price.”   David Brooks, New York Times It is as if a meteorite just hit North… Continue reading

  • Good, Honor, and Evil: The Brothers at Odds

    When a father, husband or son executes a young woman for disobedience to the family’s honor code, whatever that code is, how does the word ‘honor’ fit with that killing? This is a question some countries and cultures are attempting… Continue reading

  • Good: and the Kryptonite Called Division

    The futility of our times is we keeping sharpening the blades of rage be those blades sarcastic humor, or outright disgust; aversion backed by our version of “facts” only to remain ever more mired in a dangerous deadlock. This is… Continue reading

  • Good, Two Trick Ponies and the Dog Days of Summer

    Do people make big decisions in the Dog Days of Summer? Not so much I think. August is summer, sand, and the lassitude of heavy heat. The one thing that does happen is repetition, for it is easier and less… Continue reading

  • Good Starvation and the Sin of Distraction

    I suspect some forms of distraction could be called a moral transgression or in less letters and a shorter word, a sin. For example, the spreading of the the lies of crimes in politics while the crime actually occurs in… Continue reading

  • Good and Submitting to Nature and Wilderness

    My wife and I climbed a steep arroyo yesterday just above Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.  There were a few things for us to always consider in the back country in New Mexico.  The first is to stay together if… Continue reading

  • Good, Mortality, Poets and What Really Matters

    There are going to be dry patches in this period of history where one wakes up in the morning and it feels like there is nothing left to say. This wordless writer read about Andrea Gibson, a poet, this morning… Continue reading

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