Category Archives: Philosophy

It is a new year. Same as the old year? Unfortunately, likely. There are solutions within our reach, but the hurdle to overcome is that those with the power to initiate change, real change, are the same ones who have … Continue reading →

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To … Continue reading →

Twas the week before Christmas, I’m searching my soul For rips and for tears and for fancies unwhole; I’m searching to understand common accord, In hopes that I find what I must have ignored; — My children were raised by … Continue reading →

I am one of 8,078,859,508… 8,078,859,571… 8,078,859,601… 8,078,859,688… 8,078,859,762… 8,078,859,856… 8,078,859,937… 8,078,860,060… To increase the world population by five-hundred-fifty-two individual Humans, it took approximately four minutes with approximately one-hundred births for every forty-five deaths. All that drama (1,002 babies born, … Continue reading →

This week I am reading “The Frozen Hours” from Jeff Shaara, a fictional account of the first months of the Korean War. About two-thirds of the way in, General Oliver P. Smith vows “to repair the raw, ugly stupidity that … Continue reading →