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BOB BROWN: Decoding the New “Structure of Feeling”

This is the time to marshal up hope for the New Year. Hope is wanting something to happen or be true, with a reasonable expectation that it will, but...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Heroism Of Ahmed Al-Ahmed At Bondi Beach In Sydney, Australia

Not all Muslims are bad people. In fact, most Muslims are good and decent people....

DAWN CUSTALOW: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

For all who wait For all who hunger For all who’ve prayed For all who wonder Behold... Christmas is...

SCOTT DREYER: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child

As adults, it is important to think of what messages we are giving the children...

FRED FIRST: Birds of a Feather

We were invited to join some geologist-birder friends for an outing last week that would...

When You’ve Been Abandoned

Pain is something we never get use to and none of us are immune. Either unknowingly or deliberately along life’s journey we’ve all encountered...

Follow Your Bliss

Those are the words of advice Joseph Campbell, the 20th century philosopher, gave Bill Moyers on his widely acclaimed PBS special, “The Power of...

I Am PC – I Have Arrived

Those of you who have read my earlier commentaries no doubt united with me in despair over my ever becoming modern.  It is a...

Keeping Our Priorities Straight

Candidates for political office say they are going to improve conditions for the middle class. The current administration in power since 2009 has been...

A Place for Us?

There have been a few times in our history that we have completely transformed our understanding of the basic, fundamental question, what is our...

I Really Am The Lucky One

Long ago, I heard the expression ‘Ghost Lives.’ Apparently we all have them. The concept refers to the apparently endless variation each of our...