mental-health
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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 “Near Life” Experience of a Nation
“Bitterness is the easiest way to leave this world having had only a near life experience“ Andrea Gibson from the poem Time Piece found in the book entitled: You Better Be Lightening Rage can become just another form of addiction. We are built… 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 and When Investigation Goes Nuclear
The tragic problem with nuclear weapons has been up until recently it has been mutually understood that a nuclear war was a lose-lose response assuring many many civilians would die and no one would win. The Epstein investigation went public… 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, The Damage We do, and Lasting Wounds
Wendall Berry, American poet, essayist, conservationist, teacher and, at root, a farmer provided the following quote. His words are humble and instructive as we navigate the age “In general I have used my farm carefully. It could be said I… Continue reading
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Good, Transactional Idiocy, and the Greenland Ruse
We have a piece of calligraphy in our home done by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist teacher that says: “Peace in Oneself, Peace in the World”. This simple truth carries a second message unstated: “War in Oneself, War in the… Continue reading
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Good and Language More Elegant than My Own
Sometimes in this project I receive from readers language more elegant and helpful than my own. The note below came to me through a dear friend who owns and operates a book store in a Washington state. The writer of… Continue reading
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Good and Death by Disconnected Detail
This writer’s adult life has spanned the birth of the personal computer, invention of internet, and the spread of social media, so the concept of a society drowning in an ocean of detail stands out in near perfect relief. From… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy and the Fallacy of “My Own Morality”
The question becomes: Can one individual have their own morality? The short answer is no. Only a narcissist can have “their own static morality” and that becomes a diagnosis rather than a morality. Ultimately morality is a social word and… Continue reading
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