life
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Good and What Humor Can and Comedy Can’t
You could call what is going on in this country right now is a comedy of errors. You might laugh but it will only be an aerobic event, for in the end you will need to cry for there is… Continue reading
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Good and the Life of A Grief that Lasts Too Long
I have followed in this new century four wars and this writer has felt overwhelmed by the tragedies of schools being blown up along with teachers, staff and their young charges. It seems when a nation decides on war be… Continue reading
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Good, Lethality and What Can’t be Unknown
What we think and how we think matters. What we think and document matters even more for what we think and document has power. That power separated from you, the author, has its own destiny engaging beyond your private universe… Continue reading
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Good, Corrective Pain, and the CPWP (Comfortable Privileged White Person)
Being comfortable in your own skin, feeling the privilege of your own blessings, and experiencing a state feeling in oneself as a worthy human being is an internal state for all humans, and is more basic than race. We live… Continue reading
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Good and America the Godfather: the Downside of Mafia Tactics
Anyone who watches the Godfather trilogy knows after watching the three hypnotic and strangely depressing trilogy of movies, in the end, the last Corleone simply collapses over the ashes of brutal life in which he achieved everything, bought the world,… Continue reading
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Good and Overcoming the Short Comings of Histrionics in National Leadership
Histrionics as a term is used often by misogynists to describe their presumed female gender’s response to complex situations that often require new levels of nuance, intuition, and clear thought. When a word in the english language gets trapped in… Continue reading
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Good and the Joy of “What Else is True”
A woman who brought aid in the form peer to peer counseling to world disaster areas taught this writer a question that has helped me and so many other people in a troubled world: And so what else is true… Continue reading
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Good, Xenophobia and the Gold of Common Ground
The price of gold has had a wild ride in these contemporary economies. That is largely because with gold we can fake it but we can’t make it (yet). Like gold, common ground exists and in terms of value to… Continue reading
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Good and “Rage Bait”: Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the year
Rage Bait is Oxford dictionary’s word of the year; except of course it is two words. How many words must one have to build a phrase of the year? I guess dictionaries would collapse under their own weight if they… Continue reading
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Good and Pain as a Persistent Poet Teacher
Pain is unfortunately embedded in the process of being alive and healthy. We seem to want to make pain a package of one thing when in reality pain is part of the body’s narrative sending complex messages of an urgent nature… Continue reading