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Archives
2024
An Elder’s View Of Our Journey
2023
Conditioning The Mind Of The Nation
Personal Reflections About
Indulgence And Its Benefactors
A Tribute To Nancy: In God’s Good Time
An Elder Ponders What Shall Not Perish
2022
So . . . Where Are We Headed Now ?
Willy And The Little Ones: Reminders Of Gratitude
Toxic Masculinity: An Elder Ponders
Why I Am A Catholic: A Brief Reflection
You’re A Poet, But You Don’t Know It...
2021
Losing Joe: A Personal Tribute
Christmas With The Young and Arrested
America At Risk: Where Shall We Find Truth
When Good Intentions Fade,
What Then ??
- Part One -
Systemic Racism? A Statement For My America
A Personal View: Where Has My America Gone ?
Nancy: The Simple Dignity Of Loving
2020
At War With Ourselves:
Before Covid And Beyond
I Speak For The Child … And For Her Mother
An Elder’s Personal Reflection
I Speak For The Child
Part Two
I Speak For The Child
Part One Of Two
How Shall We Love Our Children ?
America In Search Of It’s Self
Another Man Died For Me: In Praise Of America
Prejudice, Violence And Our Precarious Future
Reflections On America In Moral Disarray: Beyond Angry Rhetoric
Some Musings On Riotous Disarray And Human Nature
Honoring Truth, Wisdom’s Price
Choosing Legacy: For WhatShall I Be Remembered
Mystery And Wisdom: Life’s Abiding Realities
Denial And Its Corollaries: America’s Flourishing Addiction
2019
Sentio, Ergo Sum: Maturity’s Elusive Path
Our Human Bonds: The Man By The Side The Road
An Elder’s Concern For Culture Corrupted
Reflections On The Death Of A Friend
Beyond Cliché … A Man For All Seasons
Belief And Its Contrarians: Walking Out Of Darkness
The Green New Deal: Myths and Migraines
Aging Is Not For The Faint-Hearted
2018
Starstuff: May Wonder Never Cease …
Faith: The Promise And The Price
The Beguiling Illusion of Empowerment
I’m Spiritual But Not Religious
The Lesser Angels Of Our Nature
An Elder Ponders The Question:
Contemplating the Number 321,384
2017
An Elder’s Christmas Reverie
On Loneliness and Loving
An Elder’s Grateful Meditation On His Wife’s Birthday
Christmas Memories With The Young and Arrested
An Elder Looks At Feeling Good
Doing Good Is Costly… But Free…
THE PRICE WE PAY FOR THE PRICELESS
Thou Shalt Indeed Make Judgments