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Good and Mistaking Wax for Bronze in Leadership
We have too many people in high places who have discovered you can be in high places wielding immense power for a few billion dollars flying on wings of wax and feathers. They, along with us who put them there,… Continue reading
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Good, and Everyone’s Shape Shifting Mind . . . Sunday Words of Rest
Dog Years by Billy Collins Today I turned 420 in dog years so I have decided to take myself for a long walk on the parth around the lake and when I get back home I will jump up on… Continue reading
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Words Better than Mine: Hannah Arendt and Authoritarian Government
Hannah Arendt was a German, Jewish, American, Philosopher, and Historian from the 20th century. Her insights on authoritarian and totalitarian government accurately predicted today’s situation in the United States. If you read nothing else by her, these quotes should get… Continue reading
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Good and Shooting Ourselves to Death
War Like a whale, is all consuming Everything fits into its mesh mouth … The bullet is a beast, as are we Our invisible battles are the hardest to win. . . by Amanda Gorman, excerpted from her poem; War:… Continue reading
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Good, The Damage We do, and Lasting Wounds
Wendall Berry, American poet, essayist, conservationist, teacher and, at root, a farmer provided the following quote. His words are humble and instructive as we navigate the age “In general I have used my farm carefully. It could be said I… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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