America Fulfilling Its Promise – Section III, Envisioning Who We are as a Beacon, Part 5, Attributes of a Functional Society

There are three major components of a functional person and a functional society – Honesty, Honor and Respect. These three with some kind of connection with an internal moral compass are essential for our living together on this planet. I. Honesty – There are few things that put us out of contact with ourselves, others […]

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 […]

The Militarization of America

First, let me share with you the process I go through to realize I want to write a blog because I do not have a “blog urge” that often. Usually, this process starts with a very subtle, almost unnoticed “noticing.” That is how this blog started some time ago. It started with a noticing about […]