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Aged, Old and Elderly

At 66, I consider myself aged. I’ve got some minor health problems and I don’t get around as good as I used to, and to

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Come as You Are

Religion, like politics, is hard to write about from a global perspective. Religion is, and should be a deep personal experience. Notice my chosen word,

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American Angry

Americans are angry. Black Americans, American Latinos, Native Americans and of course, White Americans. The poor are angry, the rich and middle class, right along

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The Silence and the Wind

When I look around the complicated American landscape of news, politics, and social media, I find it exhausting. Tiring in the sense of an addiction,

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Ol’ Joe

I’m going to climb the tallest oak I can, climb to the top I will, and crawl out on the thinnest limb I see and

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The Evangelical Threat

In spring of 2010, as congress was scheduled to pass reform in our health care sector, Rep John Lewis of Georgia was walking up the

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Knowledge vs Wisdom

I always figured that as I grew older, I’d get a bit wiser. Of course, ain’t nothing further from the truth, whatever the truth might

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How We Do Things Here

Politics ain’t what they used to be. Not that they were ever anything special. There is not a golden age of American politics that we

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Will Humans Go Extinct

Ever ask yourself the big question? Do we, as a species, deserve to survive, to eventually spread out among the stars? The question is often

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Trumps Indicated

For the first time in history a US president, now a private citizen, has been indicted, or in Donald Trump’s words, indicated. As thoroughly liberal

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Unexpected Vacation

Vacations are fun, getting back to the reality of snow, grey skies and the frozen tundra, not so much. The Virgin cruise we took was

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To Dream

Why dream of a better America in a land where dreams come varied and fluid of shape and form. To dream of equality in a

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A Fragmented Reality

My view of reality is fragmented. Simple and sure, the view from where I set is incomplete. I know it’s incomplete, and I’m left filling

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A Christmas Thought

It’s hard to sort out my feelings this holiday season. My mother passed the end of November and I’ve also had two very close friends

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