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Jan 94 min read
What Can We Learn About How to Live the Good Life From A Practitioner of Good Works?
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense . . . human rights invented America." 38th president of the United States,...
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Oct 24, 20245 min read
Steward Your Attention: Fill and Protect Your Own Bucket
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings. Ralph Marston, author...
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Jul 3, 20244 min read
Good Ways to Celebrate Our Independence
"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the...
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Jun 4, 20246 min read
Blessed Are the Curious For They Shall Have Adventures
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies...Abraham Lincoln. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not...
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May 23, 20243 min read
Stand Down
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai Stevenson II, Fifth...
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May 7, 20248 min read
Self-Transcendence: Flow, Spirituality, Inner Peace, and Doing the Best We Can With What We've Got
“The mystique of rock climbing is climbing; you get to the top of a rock glad it’s over but really wish it would go on forever. The...
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Dec 9, 20236 min read
Who Starts It? How? Why?
Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped. Carl Sagan Two of our granddaughters recently spent the...
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Oct 10, 20233 min read
Don't Despair - We Can Resist Evil, Peace is Possible
The line of good and evil is down the middle of every person's heart. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, imprisoned Russian writer John and I plan...
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May 28, 20236 min read
Heroism, War On The Mind, and Contemplating Memorial Day
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Joseph Campbell, American writer, author of The Hero...
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Dec 19, 20224 min read
More Like Dog: Reactivity and the Ripple Effect
Like a drop in the vast ocean, each of us causes ripples as we move through our lives. The effects of whatever we do - insignificant as...
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Dec 15, 20223 min read
Want World Peace? A Better Relationship Harvest? Try More Farming
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn." B. C. Forbes, Scottish-American...
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