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Life, death, and fear. Nowadays, there is not only a spike in the incidence of COIVD  infections ( and resulting mortal death ), but there i...

Ignorance based fear. A while ago I came across a greeting card, intended as encouragement, that said, “Don’t let reality get in the...

Law and Order? In 1970 Alvin Toffler wrote and published Future Shock , a book many considered to have caused a paradigm shift in how ...

All or none This is a recycled post initially created during the  Obama  era since the issue is as relevant now as then. We seem to b...

The winds of change. At the current time, conditional uncertainty and instability are running rampant throughout the world, and this is...

Two of the most prominent figures in the history of Zen were Nagarjuna and Bodhidharma . Both had meaningful perspectives on the matter o...

The talent of connecting relevant dots (not all dots are relevant) is a critical one. In a good many cases, what seems as disconnected an...

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” —Mark Twain In prior times deception was the exception (or so it seemed). Now it appears to have b...

In the letter to the Romans , the apostle Paul instructed his readers on how to discern God’s will, which we would have to consider, as he...

In the early 1980 ’ s speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill coined the phrase “The Third Rail of Politics” as a metaphor for addressing a topi...