Did you hear? The war is over in Iraq. This feels a lot different to me than the end of Viet Nam, Desert Storm or even Grenada, except for the part where I’m ashamed of my country’s participation. As usual, on the positive vs negative checklist, the categories of useless…
I just spent a gloriously, (way-too-short), exhausting week with my six and two-year-old grandchildren. Although the visit also included many other loving members of my large family, (plus a wedding, some birthdays, peanut allergies, cookies, pie and an obstacle course), the energy, timetable, activities and mood swings were nearly exclusively…
There’s that ‘bliss’ reference and the “what you don’t know” presumption. Personally, I subscribe to the notion that probably has not made it into Bartlett’s yet, that, “ignorance is, well, just ignorant.” In a reverse anthropomorphic sense, we have become a flock of head-in-the-sand ratites choosing to remain blissfully ignorant…
There are many kinds of separation. There’s the pining separation from a loved one, the painful separation of flesh from bone, the boggling separation of anyone from their senses, the mysterious post partum separation and the fundamentally important, albeit fictitious, separation of church and state. One thing that troubles me about the…
ethics [ˈɛθɪks] n 1. (Philosophy) (functioning as singular) the philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it; moral philosophy See also meta-ethics 2. (functioning as plural) a social, religious, or civil code of behaviour considered correct, esp that of a particular group, profession, or individual…