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Good and the Price of your Soul
The good news is that if you want to sell your soul, at least the president and his party have put a real price tag on it. For tens of thousands of years the human soul has evaded the commodification… Continue reading
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Good and the Assault on Goodness
This writer sees the eyes roll when I suggest I am writing this column to support and rehabilitate the word “good”. The more interested people who contest this approach ask me if I am promoting the all out relativity of… Continue reading
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Good and Three C’s in Lasting Hard Times: An Uncredentialed Homily for a Stuggle
The three Cs mental health in lasting hard times are Connection, Caring, and Comedy. If you are not formally diagnosed in these profoundly difficult days, for the average American, these three Cs add ballast to your boat in the storm… Continue reading
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Good and Science in Handcuffs
Many of us, including myself are alive on this planet today thanks to the work of science. Never in this nation’s history has science ever been anything but the frontier of human knowledge. Never that is until this administration that… Continue reading
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Good, Wealth, Capitalism and Anti-gravity
Galleries are not the engine of the art world. Artists and their art are. Culture only trickles up, and money never trickles down. A comment by Lari Pittman from Los Angeles in an NYT letter to the editor. Here are… 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, Human Connection, and Social Capital
What is Social Capital? Is it the ultimate expression of capitalism, or is it an organic dimension of universal human development and thriving? Let’s start with the idea off social capital as a misnomer. Poor people, and I mean desperately… Continue reading
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Good, Justice, Private Passion and Public Compassion
Justice in America right now is being preserved and administered by the judges of America. The Department of Justice this nation was initially charged with support and service as oversight and peer review of the judge’s work but has been… Continue reading
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Good , Ungrounded and the Secular Ecumenical Virtues
Growing up in our divided country is a numbing challenge for both today’s youth and young adults. The current government is busy trashing the language of virtue, disdaining ethics, and simply ignoring morality. Our leadership is promoting pragmatism, and purely… Continue reading
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Good, Avoidable death and Affordable life.
It is most unfortunate that when this administration began its budget cuts not many of us had any idea how many lives our taxes in the form of aid were saving in the world and how many lives would be… Continue reading
