Author Archives: bryan

I am working this week to reconcile competence and improvement with understanding and equity. To be understanding is to be nice; as it should be. To be competent is to be truthful; construed by some as insensitive. The incompetent still … Continue reading →

To question in an effort to change for the better could be taken for what it is, (an effort to change for the better), which should lead to a back and forth discussion and listening for understanding. But instead, an … Continue reading →

Human individuals fear insignificance. We work to counter or fill this emptiness with Self-Righteous Pretense or with Reasoned Action or with a mixture from somewhere along that spectrum. Hope: an unburst bubble. Active Hope: hope filled with reasoned action. Reasoned … Continue reading →

Suddenly, instead of same old vs. same old it has become fist-pumping blood-spattered hillbilly American patriotism vs. Same old same old. And in recent decades we have become an either/or nation incapable of subtlety, finesse, or autonomous individual change. So … Continue reading →

Shingles triggers hives that bring on stress that exacerbates both Shingles and hives. Political divisiveness triggers bombast that brings on closed-minded ignorance that exacerbates both divisiveness and bombast. Power triggers self-importance that brings on indifference that exacerbates both power and … Continue reading →