Good: Talking life but Choosing Death

politics

  • Good: Talking life but Choosing Death

    Having a Palliative Care nurse as a spouse and poet has left me a different person than I would be if I hadn’t. The end of life presents the ultimate decision points that either gather together all that is good… Continue reading

  • Good and Why Immigration is not Political

    If you don’t understand why immigration is not essentially political you need to go to the movie Nuremberg which has recently opened in theaters. No, the treatment of the immigrant is first and foremost, moral.  The political response is only an echo of… Continue reading

  • Good and Religious Orthodoxy: Renascence or Reign of Terror

    That people are reported to be struggling to achieve deeper meaning in this uncertain time could be construed as good news. That there is a surge of people, and particularly younger men who are joining orthodox churches suggests a shift… Continue reading

  • Good and the Fallacy of the Financial Elite

    The highest standard of elite in a democracy is the authentic distillation, expression  and codification of the public’s authority.  Democracy is a public service. Yes, private individuals may have the power to trash the United States White House, but they are not… Continue reading

  • Good and Sad Lives Without a History

    This writer’s life, like probably most other people whose lives that exceed a certain number of years has been eventful without being exceptional. My spouse of 53 years, it happens, comes from a family that hand wrote letters to each… Continue reading

  • Good, Life’s last Layer, and Abuse’s Memory

    Skin is a complex body organ and not wrapping paper. When the child gets the first deep scratch and the skin releases that emergent bit of blood many children follow their instincts and scream. But it seems now as adults… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Good, Governance and No Skin in the Game

    Saying that you have no skin in the game suggests you can be impartial and disinterested in the decisions to be made.  Generally that is a good thing to say for a mediator in a mediation.  However, in governance, ‘no… Continue reading

  • Good, The Next Democracy, Cult, and Traversing the Gulf of Disaster

    The Next Democracy Virtue 5 Primacy of priorities for the future generations and the Earth’s care; The idea that humans could alter the composition and process of life to the point where earth might become uninhabitable simply wasn’t on the mind of our 18th century constitution’s authors. In this century… Continue reading

  • 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