USA – Insight/Outfit of the Day

Even when unintended, our ability to love may be influential.

Are we ever able to count upon anything as a common shared experience among all humans? Though the effort to do so may be born of good intentions and a desire to empathize, the attempt also seems inevitably doomed to dismissal via rigid relativism, and/or mockery via nihilism (that most undemanding and uncreative of the…

Allegiance

The economic conversation, as relates to everyday people, places an overwhelming focus on JOBS. As an ordinary person surrounded by regular people, I propose we assert the dignity of WORK. What work can we accomplish, all hands on, actually improving our everyday existence and quality of life? If we consider that to be the important…

civility

I try to make a point of looking people in the eye and giving a smile or a nod. Relieved that here in Lansing, MI my overtures are most commonly responded to in kind. It is a decidedly diverse city, and I more often than not see all walks of life represented in the places…