Category Archives: Philosophy

Affluent comfort is security; freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt. Compassion requires effort. Effort, done properly, creates discomfort. Thus affluent comfort rejects-refuses-repels compassion. Affluent comfort is the realm of those with wealth and power. Though a large majority of us … Continue reading →

Broken: reduced to fragments; fragmented; ruptured; torn; fractured; not functioning properly; out of working order. We as a nation are broken. Yet we remain tied, bound, gagged to a system that is safely entrenched in practice, ritual, convention. And I … Continue reading →

Regardless of who makes a decision, instinctively… When a decision is made and it works to my advantage, it is smart. When a decision is made and it works to my disadvantage, it is dumb. After instinct, decisions are according … Continue reading →

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 →