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WHAT’S WORTH WHAT

WHAT’S WORTH WHAT

A few days ago, I point­ed my kayak into a gust­ing north wind kick­ing up a lot of chop. I can’t put a dol­lar sign on what the effort was worth to me, which makes me won­der how mon­e­tary val­ues are assigned to things with no quan­tifi­able or prac­ti­cal value.Read the rest

AMERICA HAS IDENTITY ISSUES

AMERICA HAS IDENTITY ISSUES

As is so often the case in the  strum und drang of pol­i­tics, the cry that the U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tion is about the “future of democ­ra­cy” per­verse­ly both empha­sis­es and hides anoth­er seri­ous mat­ter; a nation­al iden­ti­ty crisis.Read the rest

IT SEEMS WE’RE NOT LISTENING PROPERLY

IT SEEMS WE’RE NOT LISTENING PROPERLY

Try­ing to cut through and parse the rhetor­i­cal bed­lam of cur­rent U.S. pol­i­tics can be tax­ing to the point of painful. A use­ful tool is the advice a dear depart­ed friend, who read vora­cious­ly and talked vol­ubly, prof­fered when­ev­er I lost track of what she was on about: “Lis­ten to what I mean, not to what I say.”Read the rest