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Good and Trusting the Broken Word
The world is beginning to grasp that there is no “deal” with the United States because this administration has broken international trust and America is no longer perceived as a reliable partner for trade or national security. Lessons children learn… Continue reading
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Good, Right or Left and the Radical Heart
The midterms are coming up and once again it looks like the fabric of unity is ripping apart under the stress to the political binaries. The nation is in halves and the parties are themselves breaking again into halves. Unity… Continue reading
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Good and Poisoning it Forward
This writer remembers better days for America where generous people performed acts of mercy and generosity, not for personal gain, but to pay it forward to the next generation. We all basked in the warm glow of acts that ‘payed… Continue reading
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Good, Power, Minds and Hearts
The one good lesson that can be learned from this era is there is no hammer big enough or power sufficient to overcome the power of good minds and powerful hearts. Nations will concede a lot but they ultimately won’t… Continue reading
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Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses
Imagine in a storm a tree falls and breaks the high power electrical line to the hospital. Not only that, but the backup generators are underwater and the trucks with repair supplies can’t make it to the line break. The… Continue reading
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Good and The Three Minds of America
No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting… Continue reading
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Good, the Brown Dandelion, and a Bedeviled Culture of Engineered Hatred
On a walk around a lake the other day this writer came upon a very young girl about 5 years old offering a look at her brown sort of tired dandelion to any walker coming by. Her precious flower was… Continue reading
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Good and from Christian to “Secular Global Liberalism”; an American Fallacy
This writer understands that our vice president is concerned about a drift from Christian civilization to secular global liberalism. His concern is our nation is in a deterioration of Christian values, morality and family. This writer finds it odd since the… Continue reading
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Good, and Words Better Than Mine from Ranier Maria Rilke
Sometimes when life gets just a notch too crazy it no longer feels as if it matters if you are a believer or not, religious or not, powerful or powerless, vulnerable or safe, right or left, extremist, radical or common… Continue reading
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Good and the Abuse of Understanding
Our latest war seems to have stalled out in a Memorandum of Misunderstanding where both sides realize they cannot win so they are trying to divide up the losses.In this writers experience most “memorandums of understanding” in any administration were… Continue reading
