Good and Language More Elegant than My Own

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  • Good and Language More Elegant than My Own

    Sometimes in this project I receive from readers language more elegant  and helpful than my own.  The note below came to me through a dear friend who owns and operates a book store in a Washington state.  The writer of… Continue reading

  • Good, War Games, and Power Addiction

    There have always been troubled human beings in power for the simple reason power for the individual seems an easier consoling alternative to the hard difficult work of returning to health. What history can’t teach us is how important it… Continue reading

  • Good, Mercy, Forgiveness and Grace in 2026

    Mercy is the softening that arises when love sees our suffering, our limits, and our humanity — and chooses not to punish, abandon, or condemn. (Author unknown) Yes I understand we are currently living under a rule and culture that… Continue reading

  • Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier

    True poverty reduces one to their true values but poverty is such a hard edged teacher.  One can easily present as a good person if one has sufficient resources, but obeying your own authority regarding the values of good from… Continue reading

  • Good and the Presumption of Guilt; Where art Thou Sweet Innocence?

    The presumption of innocence is not a new concept with the US Constitution.  The matter goes back in a formal legal sense at least as far as the Code of Hammurabi dating back in the ancient near east to at… Continue reading

  • Good: Talking life but Choosing Death

    Having a Palliative Care nurse as a spouse and poet has left me a different person than I would be if I hadn’t. The end of life presents the ultimate decision points that either gather together all that is good… Continue reading

  • Good and Why Immigration is not Political

    If you don’t understand why immigration is not essentially political you need to go to the movie Nuremberg which has recently opened in theaters. No, the treatment of the immigrant is first and foremost, moral.  The political response is only an echo of… Continue reading

  • Good and Religious Orthodoxy: Renascence or Reign of Terror

    That people are reported to be struggling to achieve deeper meaning in this uncertain time could be construed as good news. That there is a surge of people, and particularly younger men who are joining orthodox churches suggests a shift… Continue reading

  • Good and “Silence in the Face of Evil”

    This Post begins with a quote from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in an article addressing collapsing morality in this era of ours. “The anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by Hitler’s henchmen shortly before… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.

    The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy… Continue reading