decision-making
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Good and the Many Faces of Posturing
“If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite… Continue reading
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Good, and the Art Cultivating Enemies and Burning Friends
This writer is not sure of the value of starting a powerful club who won’t have you as a member. And yet that is the apparently strategy of our current leader who took the second most powerful nation in the… 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 and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock
Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a… 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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Good, Grief, and the Exhaustion of Bad News
I sense a bad news exhaustion in myself as well as readers. Writing bad news in bold lettering does little to nothing to counter the bad news of this day. The new AI enhanced cartoons about the current leaders are… Continue reading
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Good, AI, and When a Secretive Force becomes a Secret Police
When you hear of secret deportation flights, plain clothes agents, masked enforcers, cyber investigations and attempts by government to breach the the firewalls of citizen privacy in Social Security, IRS, and Human Services, than the current secretive enforcement campaign can… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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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