mental-health
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Good, Let them Starve, and Domestic Abuse
First responders are no doubt aware of the dynamic of successful, cheerful, ‘confident’ adults who go home after work and for one mysterious sick reason or another abuse their hapless family. Wives doing secretive make up sessions prior to work… Continue reading
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Good, Beauty/Bad and Saving your Resisting Life
Writer Marilyn Robinson said in an interview with Peter Wehner in a New York Times article that “the idea of beauty is a Signature of God”. She went on to say: “I think we accepted a kind of functionalism as the… Continue reading
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Good, Hatred, Addiction, and “What’s Love Got to do with it?”
We live in a time when Tina Turner’s question of “what’s love got to do with it?” is maybe the most important question of the age. “What’s love but a second hand emotion?” seems the response and sales pitch of our present… Continue reading
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Good and Leadership’s Shame
It is hard and sorrowful to live in a country where the President himself acts as if ashamed of the American story. The current leadership is so ashamed they strive to erase all the dark and hard dimensions of the… Continue reading
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Good, Grief, and the Exhaustion of Bad News
I sense a bad news exhaustion in myself as well as readers. Writing bad news in bold lettering does little to nothing to counter the bad news of this day. The new AI enhanced cartoons about the current leaders are… Continue reading
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Good, Mortality, Poets and What Really Matters
There are going to be dry patches in this period of history where one wakes up in the morning and it feels like there is nothing left to say. This wordless writer read about Andrea Gibson, a poet, this morning… Continue reading
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Good, Discovering Reality, Justice, and Imagination
This country could only end up in this set of circumstances through the lazy neglect of imagination. The working phrase is: “Imagine how you would feel if . . . . . .?”. The alternative to imagination, particularly in deciding… Continue reading
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Good, Waiting for Godot , and Unlikely Strangers
Somehow Samual Becket’s Play “Waiting for Godot” keeps percolating up as I watch the inevitability of this political season unfold. Whatever one thinks of our current President, the nation such as it is, and its Supreme Court, have conceded the… Continue reading
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Good, Faux and True Authenticity, and Survival
One of our political parties is looking at the attribute ‘authenticity’ to strengthen their political approach. The challenge with authenticity is that it is nearly impossible to fake or predict. Our current leader is probably where he is because he… Continue reading
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Good, the “Sin of Empathy??”, Rantings and Ravings
I read the other day there are some nationalists who now consider empathy a sin. They have attached themselves to one of the world’s major religious traditions by a thread, if that. Given the times we are in, this touch… Continue reading
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