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Good, Cult, and America’s Broken Paradigm
This writer has written about cults off and on in America and yes we are a culture infected with cult, but cult is not the bottom of our problems; merely a symptom. Cults come and go and are usually time… Continue reading
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Good and Three C’s in Lasting Hard Times: An Uncredentialed Homily for a Stuggle
The three Cs mental health in lasting hard times are Connection, Caring, and Comedy. If you are not formally diagnosed in these profoundly difficult days, for the average American, these three Cs add ballast to your boat in the storm… Continue reading
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Good and Playing a Losing Hand against a Cheater
This writer learned early in his career if you don’t have the votes you don’t have the power no matter what kind of rhetoric you can marshal. In the games of cards one can almost feel a losing hand as… Continue reading
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Good, Jelly Beans, AI, and The Odyssey
I can remember my love of jelly beans as a child. The more the better was my approach. This writer can also remember the stomach aches when he got more than he was allowed, acquired through nefarious means. As I… Continue reading
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Good and Science in Handcuffs
Many of us, including myself are alive on this planet today thanks to the work of science. Never in this nation’s history has science ever been anything but the frontier of human knowledge. Never that is until this administration that… Continue reading
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Good, the Brown Dandelion, and a Bedeviled Culture of Engineered Hatred
On a walk around a lake the other day this writer came upon a very young girl about 5 years old offering a look at her brown sort of tired dandelion to any walker coming by. Her precious flower was… Continue reading
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Good and Herd Mentality Leadership
Common sense tells us when a train is already coming off the tracks it is not a good time the hitch a ride on it. So why is the United States hitching a ride on the aggressions of Russia and… Continue reading
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Good, and Everyone’s Shape Shifting Mind . . . Sunday Words of Rest
Dog Years by Billy Collins Today I turned 420 in dog years so I have decided to take myself for a long walk on the parth around the lake and when I get back home I will jump up on… Continue reading
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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 Life of A Grief that Lasts Too Long
I have followed in this new century four wars and this writer has felt overwhelmed by the tragedies of schools being blown up along with teachers, staff and their young charges. It seems when a nation decides on war be… Continue reading