Tomorrow is December 1st, and the holiday season is upon us. We’ll have the Christian and Jewish holy days, Kwanza, and spiritual celebrations for Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, and Zoroastrians. So to offer my first of many holiday messages, I chose to make it non-religious and take it from the daily Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. As… Continue reading The Holidays are Upon Us.
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Time to Unite
Today, a third of us are delighted, another third are depressed, and 40 percent have no idea what just happened. The 2022 midterms, possibly the most important in our history, are over, and I’ll bet my next pension check, the lawsuits have begun to fly. I’m writing this column a week ahead, and I’m predicting… Continue reading Time to Unite
Are we at the bottom?
The Cuban missile crisis dragged me into adulthood in 1962, the year I was married. I began to pay attention to world events. Soon after, our country shared the pain of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. This was during the time we were torn apart by the war in Viet Nam… Continue reading Are we at the bottom?
These midterms are the most important in recent history.
What if I told you that our reactions to everything in life are happening in our heads? And that no one makes us mad or drives us crazy? What if we could fully understand and utilize this information to take charge of our feelings about those parts of our lives we feel are giving us… Continue reading These midterms are the most important in recent history.
Autumn always makes me pensive.
It’s the autumn of the year, and it brings a kind of mood that reminds me of what it’s like to grow old. It’s nothing like I imagined it would be, not that I spent a lot of time thinking about it when I was young. From time to time, the thought did enter my… Continue reading Autumn always makes me pensive.
Where do religious rights end and individual rights begin?
“CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Says Iran President Cancelled an Interview After She Declined to Wear a Hijab “After weeks of planning and eight hours of setting up translation equipment, lights, and cameras, we were ready,” she explained. “But no sign of President Raisi. Forty minutes after the interview had been due to start, an aide came… Continue reading Where do religious rights end and individual rights begin?
Do You Need to be Awakened?
While reading his book, Revelation, The Education of a Priest, in preparing to interview Rev. Dale Coleman for my radio show, Think Again, Please, I found this: “There is a downside, CS Lewis once said; the do-gooders quite often leave their worked-over prey with a haunted, frightened look. […] Pride, self-righteousness, sanctimony, and even tyranny… Continue reading Do You Need to be Awakened?
It’s time to admit we need each other.
This country is in a “crisis, and it can offer us a radical break from the circumstances that produced it, a moment of genuine openness, a chance to rethink everything anew.” But do we see it that way? Not so much. Why? Because first, it must be viewed as though with new eyes. We must… Continue reading It’s time to admit we need each other.
The United States is on trial.
Our society is the jury of the most critical trial we’ve faced so far. Our future depends on how we handle this current crisis. On the surface, the question is, does the rule of law apply to everyone, even former presidents, or does it apply only to those of us who are ordinary taxpayers? But… Continue reading The United States is on trial.
“Who will you believe, Trump or your lying eyes?”
Like everything else, the January 6th Committee hearings are splitting the country into believers and non-believers. Never mind that these hearings uncover the ongoing treason committed by a former president, his government co-conspirators, and his not insignificant numbers of loyal followers. (71 percent of Republicans — roughly 52 million voters, according to a University of Massachusetts… Continue reading “Who will you believe, Trump or your lying eyes?”
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