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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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Good and the World of Hungry Stereotypes
(a brief digression in prep for Inauguration Day) At some deep, embarrassing, defensive level this writer sometimes feels made to feel like he lives in one of the most disliked demographics in the world today; the older, white, middle class… Continue reading
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Good, Deep History, and the Vatman’s Tears
To create a moment in history like ours today, you need to ignore two things; deep history and the facts of the day. The facts are here for us to use and abuse. But history lies in the root system… Continue reading
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Good, Hubris, the Waxed Emperor, and the Mentor
The myth of Icarus is a cautionary tale for all times. Flying too close to the sun with wax wings has predictable results. This is very much a tale for our time. Myths are truth that instruct with undeniable, universally… Continue reading
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