Peace, Justice, and Prosperity
For most of my life I have been a dreamer. As a child I sat many a fine hour on a creek bank with a cork floating on the water (often with no bait on the hook) and dreamed of other times and other...
View ArticleThe Three Legged Stool
The ideals of freedom, security, and opportunity are like unto a milking stool (the proverbial "three-legged-stool"). With any one leg missing the whole structure fails to support even its own weight....
View ArticleVision Blog: Follow the Energy
This diary will be a think piece, pondering, philosophical musing... or, if you prefer, random meandering (I like the assonance of that one). It will not be linky, erudite, or academic, but it will be...
View Article"Winding up someplace else"
I'm not a baseball fan--not a sports fan of any kind, really--but I can't help thinking about Yogi Berra from time to time.Not for his skill at the game--he is apparently considered one of the greatest...
View ArticleThis is nothing but thinking aloud a bit
at this point in my life I think I would enjoy being able to make enough from writing to fill in the difference what I used to make teaching and what I make now in Social Security and Pension. I am...
View ArticleWill the corporations be held accountable
I'm struggling with how to reconcile responses to the recent tragedies which have occurred in the US. This week we as Americans have had two significant incidents happen - the bombing in Boston and,...
View ArticleWalking with Kobi
Because of the heat, in the mornings Kobi and I have been walking at Elmwood Cemetery. It’s cool over there and connects me, in a bittersweet way, with the memories of Benjamin the mini Schnauzer,...
View ArticleAmerica’s true religion is itself
The average school year is 180 days* out of 365, or 49% of the year. Over 12 years (180 days X 12), that’s 2,160 days of school. That’s 2,160 times you have been “taught to” / forced to / brainwashed...
View Article"I"dentity
One person can have many titles.I’d bet there is at least one person at DailyKos who is all of these “things” at the very same...
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