Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier

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  • 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 “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, Truth, Speech and Expression

    The unspoken foundation of the human right Freedom of Speech was always truth. One doubts that the crafters of this American Constitution ever dreamed that an age would come when the lie was granted equal footing with the truth and… Continue reading

  • Good and How many Rights Cancel a Wrong?

    Hard as it may be for some people to accept, the current administration may have done some good in the world.  If the cease fire holds in Gaza , the hostages come home, and relief comes to the Gazan population,… Continue reading

  • Good, Hatred, Addiction, and “What’s Love Got to do with it?”

    We live in a time when Tina Turner’s question of “what’s love got to do with it?” is maybe the most important question of the age.  “What’s love but a second hand emotion?” seems the response and sales pitch of our present… Continue reading

  • Good and the Moot of Assassination

    There probably would have been little Charlie Kirk and and I would have agreed upon in the rough and tumble of politics, but all those differences were rendered ‘moot’ by the news of his assassination. From the moment I heard… Continue reading

  • Good and the Importance of Center

    Show me a high performance athlete who doesn’t understand the importance of the center of gravity. You can’t.   They may not have the language for it but they understand the feel of the center, and when they fall even… 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