Yesterday I was up at 6:30 in the morning with the TV warming up and a cup of coffee in my hand … awaiting the start of the Senate Hearing on the attempted rape accusation levied by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. I witnessed the whole thing and I walked away dispirited. […]
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Let me say up front that I don’t see any compelling reason to believe that if you’re committed to pursuing collective survivability that you then ought to be committed to diversity tolerance. Sometimes, it seems to me, a social identity group really is best served by everyone knowing exactly what role that they each should
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Long-term inter-personal relations have a propensity, it seems, to grow routine. And not ‘routine’ in the good sense, of freeing up time to be more creative (as Williams James advocated), but in the boring sense of one too many boxes of vanilla wafers. Let me explain: Over the years I, like many folks, have managed
I remember, many years ago as a young man, stumbling upon an insight, while sitting in a high sierra meadow; that if I really wanted to take this moment of bliss away with me that I needed to express my heartfelt gratitude, to this place, for providing me this experience. It was one of those
My wife (Rochelle) and I took to the streets in Monterey on Saturday to add our voices to the many others who could not comfortably sit with the notion of children being torn from their mother’s arm as a deterrent to others seeking refuge. I felt a sense of gratitude towards my neighbors as we
At the heart of being a human becoming, it seems to me, is a disciplined capacity to be comfortable with uncertainty … in all its various forms. Not least of these is in regard to our notions of what’s going on in the world, i.e., the stories we all get ‘attached to’ … so as to
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