mental-health
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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 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, 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 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, Nonsense, and Designing our Exit from these Hot Times
Rated PG-13 for mild peril and mass casualties. Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes. In theaters. This rating summary was given for the new movie Supergirl and this writer is pretty sure the people who wrote it either missed the… Continue reading
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Good and the Disease of Insatiable Wealth
Dr. David Lay Williams is a professor of political science who studies the role of economic inequality in the history of political thought. He wrote the following quote as a guest writer in the New York Times addressing ancient concerns… 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, the 20th Century “Magna Carta” for the World and the Child in America
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the United Nations in 1948. That Declaration has been described as the Magna Carta of the Twentieth Century. The quote below is taken from the Convention on the Rights of the Child which… Continue reading
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Good and Washington’s Resignation: A Moral Lesson Forgotten
Heather Cox Richardson, in her Letters From an American, a model column writer for all writers summarized beautifully the Revolutionary War that brought our country into being . Here is a direct quote from the that column in her June… Continue reading
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Good, Children Living in the Lions Den While Parents Worry about Freedom
As a writer who communicates through the internet, my sense of that network’s value is extremely ambiguous. As a parent and grandparent though my feelings are far less ambiguous. The internet is an extremely aggressive environment full of snares and… Continue reading
The Good Decision 