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Civil Discourse: is it dead, dying, or worth the effort to revive it?   If you believe as I do that it is not only possible to revive civil discourse, but imperative that we do so, then you’ve landed on the right blog. AND, if you aren’t sure, you’re still welcome and I hope you’ll join… more »
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Civil political discourse: If I try for it, will I be disappointed? Is civil discourse a greased pig? Again, I choose to believe that civil discourse is not only attainable — doable — it is vital for the future of our democracy. This quote from Margaret Wheatley, herself a former Peace Corps volunteer and now an organizational… more »
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March 8, 2017 Today is International Women’s Day, a holiday celebrated around the world. Its theme for 2017 is  Be Bold for Change.     For my contribution, I am reposting (with permission and slightly edited for length and clarity) from an OpEd piece that ran in the Leader-Telegraph, the local Eau Claire, WI newspaper, February… more »
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Is civil discourse dead? Weakened from lack of use? Civil discourse may be hard to find these days, with uncivil conversations taking over on social media and elsewhere. But I want to believe that we can revive it, if we want it badly enough, and so I do. It’s a choice I make. I hope I’m… more »
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How do we hold a civil conversation with someone with whom we fundamentally disagree? How can we disagree without becoming disagreeable? However do we begin? If you’ve been paying attention over the past few months, these are not new questions. It used to be folks could gather on the bench outside the post office, or around the wood stove… more »
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Greed. One of the seven deadly sins. Are we as a culture down to only six?   The quote above (and the fuller one, below)  is from tRump’s The Art of the Deal.  The only time in my life I didn’t follow that rule was with the USFL [the defunct United States Football League]. I bought… more »
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The official title is World Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day It comes on January 27 each year and was first established in 2005 through a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly. The date was selected in memory of the largest of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, which was liberated by Soviet troops on January 27,… more »
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January 21, 2017 THE WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON     Unlike the Aral, Black, or Caspian, I landed upon this particular sea at Independence Avenue and 4th Street (SW) shortly after I got off the DC Metro at  the Federal Triangle station. A sea of bodies, people packed together, so tightly.  There were, of course,… more »
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  Are you feeling outraged? Alarmed? Concerned? Curious? Depressed? In two days, the 45th President of the United States will take the oath of office. I will probably listen to the proceedings of the day on the radio, for I’ll be barreling down the highway to Washington DC.  I  feel deeply the need to get… more »
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