Stop and smell the roses
Rebecca Solnit suggests that no matter life’s challenges, we need to smell the roses along the way.
All posts filed under: The Times We Live In
Addressing the challenges of our polarized times
Building is slow, hard work
It is hard work to build a better America for everyone.
Armistice Day and the banality of evil
Vonnegut wrote that the sudden silence on 11/11/18 was when the Voice of God clearly spoke to mankind.
Do they get paid when they are wrong?
Politics is much more dynamic than the coverage suggests. 2021 is not 2022.
Not our masters, but our guides
The past has much to teach us. Yet elders are not our masters, but guides.
Affirming sacred worth, restoring human dignity, and sabotaging the shame of poverty
Captivated by a life-affirming fresco.
The sustainability of this experiment called America
Work to ensure that people are treated as human beings never ends.
Reckonings that are a long time coming
Michael Eric Dyson writes letters to black martyrs, grappling with the need for a reckoning with race.
America could learn a lot from its first peoples. Let’s start with the truth
Why we should celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on the second Monday in October.
Time for a rewrite
The purpose of journalism is to share information. Some journalists seem hard pressed to remember that fact.
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