Best of the blog: Top ten posts of 2020
December is for “Best of…” lists. To celebrate 2020 here are the top 10 posts based on reader views.
All posts filed under: Monday Musings
Thoughts to start off the work week
The 2020 year-end reading list
The books I read in the year of COVID, Black Lives Matter, and GOP attacks on our democracy.
Be there
You never know when someone needs you to be there, to be your best. It may be as you write a note or pour a cup of coffee.
Go act in the world: Frederick Douglass and our escape from captivity.
Frederick Douglass is a 19th century prophet whose words still resonate in 21st century America.
Isolated minds. Dead hearts.
We have reached the point in our civic lives where we are easily overwhelmed by evil and hatred, which isolate the mind and kill the heart.
Have the courage to defy convention
The comment that “my father did the ironing and my mother did the finances” led down a new path.
We have to own up to our culture if we want to change it
Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be An Antiracist” is a powerful reminder of our personal responsibilities in fighting racism.
Let’s dream again
Moving towards a place and time where belief in our abilities to achieve a noble common purpose defeats the fears that turn hate into loathing.
Democracy is never permanent…and the work to keep it never ends
My series of observations on the lessons of history in the fight for democracy.
Be a good boy…and follow your mother’s advice
The story of the ratification of the 19th amendment – giving women the right to vote – has connections to Tennessee and a historic hotel in Nashville.
MORE TO COME... 