The more we lock away, the greater the cost our humanity pays.

  New music can satisfy even those among us who harbor suspicions about the power of consumerism to sully mass-market artistic creations.  I’m specifically thinking of “This is America” by Childish Gambino/Donald Glover, the video for which exemplifies the intensity of living with eyes so open to self and world that those observing cannot resist being…

Stating internal truths is a necessary first step to externalizing influence.

What is writing good for?  At the very least, the articulation of one’s free-floating inner moral compass. To translate the feeling sense into a comprehended form. Opportunity abounds to do so.  For example, @ regulations.gov, there is opportunity to leave public comment on various proposed matters of legislative oversight.  I recently left my following two…

Heroism connects emotion to action.

I love to cry. “Water is life” as a movement and phrase gained recognition largely through the overlapping occurrences of the Standing Rock, anti-DAPL protests and the Flint water crisis.  Among indigenous nations, there are also important teachings about how “water is medicine.”  This conviction interestingly finds considerable back-up through scientific observations and experiments related…