Better

What should become part and parcel of our character, and first and foremost on our minds? Simply this: To make it a better world for more of us than for fewer of us.

Embrace of Illusion

“Know your enemy, know yourself; in a hundred battles you will not be in peril.” Sun Tzu

America knows neither.

The Spirit of Irony

An ironic thing: Religion should help spirituality, but often enough, it instead gets in the way.

Circle of Toxicity

It is unnatural to be under constant stress, as people in our society often are, especially in these economically trying times. Being under constant stress first compromises, then degrades, then exhausts the immune system. We then become susceptible to all sorts of things. Add to that how thoroughly we have contaminated our environment and our food and water, utterly overloading our ability to neutralize and expel toxins, and you have a prescription for toxic excess to tick like a time bomb.

We have to address things holistically if we are to do anything more than run exhausted from one crisis to another—or to make the connections that most of those crises are…connected.