health
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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
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Good, Dancing Presidents, and Calibrating the Value of a Human Life
When this reader sees bombs exploding and flames leaping across buildings and habitat for some reason I see no reason to celebrate. “Not one American life lost” is presented as the ‘good news’, but later in the news story in… Continue reading
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Good and “My Child is Being Poisoned”. When to Intervene?
For a quick short answer I urgently suggest “RIGHT NOW”. What parent wouldn’t immediately rescue their young child from death or life long injury seeing their child in imminent danger? But suppose there were two children and it was your… Continue reading
The Good Decision 