#AncientTexan

How do you define values?  Core values? Important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by an individual, a group, or the members of a culture about what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable. Values have a major influence on a person's behavior and attitude and serve as broad guidelines in all situations . ... What do you think are the core values of your culture?  Is there any gro...

What stories have you been told about blue jays? (The birds, not the baseball players.)  What stories do you tell yourself about blue jays?  What do you feel toward blue jays?  Do you like blue jays?

Have you noticed any doom and gloom stories on the tube?   Do these stories represent reality?  Is the sky falling?

Has capitalism messed up healthcare?  Has capitalism been applied to healthcare?

When you see a human without seeing their vulnerabilities and suffering.  When you see a human without valuing their existence, the sanctity of life, then you are seeing them as an "other".  You are "othering" them.  If you want to belong, to feel connected to your own life, you must learn to see others as humans with vulnerabilities and value. 

Capitalism has been great at making wealth.  However, the rules for capitalism in America have not evolved to cause or even encourage the distribution of that wealth to humanity.  Not even the workers get their fair share of the wealth according to most people living in this country.  However, since the rules governing how wealth is distributed (minimum wages, benefits, union laws,...

What stories from your youth do you still carry into your adult life?

Do you have a favorite team that you call "your team?"   What makes it your team.  Why are you emotionally attached?  Are you attached to the story that it is your team, that if it does well you somehow do well too?

Have you heard the "Jesus Story"?  Yea, it is one of the oldest stories around.  But, like all stories, it is incomplete and inaccurate ..... just like all stories. 

Genesis Chapters 1 to 3.  What does the story of creation in the Bible tell you about men?  About women? Are we inherently good or bad?  Does this go double for women? How do you think this view of men affects children raised on this story and those that follow?

Humans relate to each other through their stories.  Understanding how we make our stories, how we emotionally attach to those stories, and how they impact our actions, is the first step in improving our lives by mastering our stories.  My life is better from understanding how I use stories in my life.  I have even learned to rewrite my stories, converting unhappy stories to happier...

Is your criticism of Trump helping feed his narrative? Is watching the news about him feeding the demon?

We have gone through hard times in this country before. We're certainly going through hard times now. PERHAPS the struggle will give birth to a new era.

We make up 5% of the world population but pretend that if we go green here that we will solve the global climate problem.  Nope.  China and India will have hundreds if not thousands of coal plants over the next ten years.  I plan for going green does not address the 95% of the world population then the prognostics for success are not good. 

There's no place like sports to see human Spirit striving for excellence. The women's final with an SQ and Serena Williams what's an example two great players, one at the end of her career oh, and the other at the beginning, bringing the best they had till competition in front of millions of people. It's incredible to see people that ability level trying the best that can being unnerved regrouping...

Hill Top School, now George Wilson Center is the center of a black neighborhood near Newark, DE.  Remember what a community looks and sounds like.   Hard to find in America these days .... and we have not been kind to this one for decades.   What's new you might ask.

The challenge with global warming in the long haul is not the U.S.   India and China with the billions seeking a higher standard of living and all the energy demands that entails is where the real challenge lies.  And guess what, if 2030 and 1.5 C is a real deadline, then we aren't going to make it. Sorry.  I don't think of this as pessimistic, just realistic.  If I am rig...

American Religion Human, all human Skin brown and burnt Seeking asylum Two months walking to the Promised Land. At our border now A week turned away Holding a child Leading one more. Dead in the desert Beside empty water jugs illegal to fill Cause its aiding and abetting A human, all human. Skin brown and burnt Safe in the arms of our American Religion. Roe December 2018

Fits of Passion Fits of passion Limbs reaching wrapping around Two, three hold as it were Each other as lovers Through decades of growth And change of girth As we walk below Two earthly lovers year upon year Our time and affections shared Mirrors revealing as our faces drift As songbirds live and die As we play in bed Evolving to quiet affection Hand holding our new passion Beneath the two trees N...

Envision the future, for yourself, for your country.  What do we need to be aware of now to make that future vision possible?  What could derail us?

Sometimes America's view of itself and its righteous has a long term negative impact on itself and the planet.   How did getting rid of dirty industries like copper mining and smelting affect America?  Jobs? Environment here and abroad? How does the Return on Investment mentality impact survivability of companies, people, and countries? How does short-term thinking compete with longer te...

How much faith should we put in stories from long ago either about ourselves, our country, our families, etc.?

A story, a fable perhaps, of how dogs evolved from wolves. Like all stories, it is inaccurate and incomplete.  But, does it carry more truth than the facts?

A public option covers all, sets up two systems competing and is a manageable evolution.