America – Envisioning Who We Are as a Beacon Immigration In Section I of this book we have taken a good, hard look at where we have gone wrong and where we are as a nation. We have seen that our society is operating just like a dysfunctional addict. It has reached a level of […]
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America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section II, Part 5
Visioning and Re-visioning our Roots Section II, Part 5, Combining Parts 2,3 and 4 In this section, we will try to pull together what we could have learned from those who went before us. We will briefly look at what we may have missed and/or forgotten from the founding of our country and what we […]
Remembering
I have decided that this week I will take off from continuing the “book” (America Fulfilling Its Promise) I have been writing online. I want to follow up on the piece I wrote for Memorial Day. I feel that not militarizing Memorial Day is an important topic as is honoring our ancestors. On Memorial Day, […]
Remembering, Noticing and Participating
I have often mentioned that two of the most important skills we need to cultivate to live more fully in a life-enhancing paradigm are noticing and participating. Recently, I noticed how deeply disturbed and embarrassed I was with the way MY President of MY United States, treated the Prime Minister of Montenegro. Trump showed no […]
America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section II – Part 4
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights First of all, I want to thank Donald Trump and all of our elected officials in Washington for the honor and necessity of this exploration that I am finding I need to do to try to understand what is happening to my nation and why. Not only do […]
America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section II – Part 3
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. Hugo De Groot The Reason for American Society I cannot tell you exactly what was in the minds, hearts and souls of those who came to “found” what has become these United States. I am much clearer about those who were already here and what […]
America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section II – Part 2
The Wisdom of Those Who Were Here When the refugees (explorers/Founders of this Country/Invaders/exploiters/Colonizers /White Western refugees) first came to this country they did not find an empty land. They found many groups of people living here and caring for these lands. As groups, they had many characteristics in common and also some very large […]
America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section II – Part 1 Introduction
It is difficult to find solutions when we do not know and understand what the problems are. In Section I we have explored the problems that are currently facing us as individuals, a society and nation, and as a human race. We have taken a peek and seen that our elected officials have been […]
America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section I/Part 10
Pulling Together the “ISM” of a Dysfunctional Society and Washington, D.C. “Good liars create a convincing fiction. Great liars create a fiction that is true for them.” Addicts and co-dependents are great liars. I want to start this section by reiterating that I have been working intensively and closely with self-identified addicts and co-dependents for […]
America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section I/Part 9
The Loss of a Moral Base and a Relationship with a Power Greater Than Ourselves The Twelve Step Program for recovery from addictions has some wisdom to share with us at this point in our progression. As I said earlier, when I began to realize I was working with addicts, I decided to attend Twelve […]