Good and “My Child is Being Poisoned”. When to Intervene?

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  • Good and “My Child is Being Poisoned”. When to Intervene?

    For a quick short answer I urgently suggest “RIGHT NOW”. What parent wouldn’t immediately rescue their young child from death or life long injury seeing their child in imminent danger?  But suppose there were two children and it was your… Continue reading

  • Good and Sad Lives Without a History

    This writer’s life, like probably most other people whose lives that exceed a certain number of years has been eventful without being exceptional. My spouse of 53 years, it happens, comes from a family that hand wrote letters to each… Continue reading

  • Good, Government and that Pesky Humanity

    Human beings are not quite herd animals as history has shown us over and over.  Yet despite the repeating evidence, frequently a government will try to frame policy around tactics based on the assumption of humans travel across the prairies… Continue reading

  • Good, Change and the Poet Laureate

    We each carry the story of our birthplace in pieces of earth, water, sky and spirit. Though nothing appears to have changed here in this Indian town along the Arkansas River, it is always changing. Joy Harjo from her book Conflict… Continue reading

  • Good, Character, Parable, and the More Dangerous Liar

    One of the benefits of including a little poetry in these posts is the poems attract interesting, talented writers. One brief connection I have benefited from comes from a response to the previous posting about bad news exhaustion. I will… 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, 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

  • Good, Us and Them, and When One is too Many

    When did it happen that a person in the United States can be arrested, no charges presented, and disappear unrepresented and disconnected from friends, family or community. Such behavior was once the exclusive domain of underdeveloped country’s possessed by ruthless… Continue reading

  • Good and Why did four to five hundred People Need to Die in Gaza?

    How you might ask will this writer tie the deaths of four to five hundred people he doesn’t even know to the word good.  The answer is simple; he can’t. So I will write about something closer to penance.  I can’t… Continue reading

  • Good, Delusion, Narrative and Numbers

    When it comes to politics or business, some times the numbers work for you, and sometimes the narrative is the wind in your sails. Either way, narrative and numbers are a single sword with two equally sharp edges. In one… Continue reading