writing
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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, Change and the Poet Laureate
We each carry the story of our birthplace in pieces of earth, water, sky and spirit. Though nothing appears to have changed here in this Indian town along the Arkansas River, it is always changing. Joy Harjo from her book Conflict… Continue reading
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Good, Character, Parable, and the More Dangerous Liar
One of the benefits of including a little poetry in these posts is the poems attract interesting, talented writers. One brief connection I have benefited from comes from a response to the previous posting about bad news exhaustion. I will… Continue reading
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Good, and Kidnapping History
The is a problem with foisting the truth of history and replacing it with a knockoff. Truth is like a snowball in the child’s hot hands who takes the snowball into the warm house to show Mom. It melts, disappears… 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: Liberal Arts, and History’s Patterns to be Broken
This writer was once a consultant for organizations struggling for direction relative to mission. One afternoon I was the only male sitting with a group of much younger professional women after a fruitful afternoon of organizational work. In the post… Continue reading
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Good , Grief, Funerals in Minnesota, and the Art of Rage
This was written a few days before the assassinations in Minnesota so I will post it lest we forget too soon. Two ways to accomplish change: create a compelling vision with a plan, or simply engineer mass rage. The second… Continue reading
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Good, Us and Them, and When One is too Many
When did it happen that a person in the United States can be arrested, no charges presented, and disappear unrepresented and disconnected from friends, family or community. Such behavior was once the exclusive domain of underdeveloped country’s possessed by ruthless… Continue reading
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Good and Why did four to five hundred People Need to Die in Gaza?
How you might ask will this writer tie the deaths of four to five hundred people he doesn’t even know to the word good. The answer is simple; he can’t. So I will write about something closer to penance. I can’t… Continue reading
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Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health
I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health. The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence… Continue reading
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