Hmm?
% of global humanity experiencing extended family keeps shrinking-geography alone pries traditional support away-expansive media pretends intimacy-media replacing extended family hmm?
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Civilization’s Chain of Command
The history of hierarchy is a key to understanding civilization’s past and future. For most of human history, our ancestral hierarchies were composed of a small number of geographically and genetically proximate individuals. Nature, habit and tradition predetermined behavior when it came to who was in charge. Parents were and remain civilization’s most important leaders….
God Bless America (and every other nation)
American democracy means we’re all in charge. What’s revolutionary about the American answer to human leadership is that a significant number of civilization’s management responsibilities are constitutionally assigned to every citizen. Democracies grow stronger, where and when citizens take their self-leadership responsibilities more seriously. Real patriots answer calls for constructive citizenship. Participate! Please! Digest This…
My Weather Mantra
Consider chanting or humming this mantra today: Facing the sky, reaching deeper into your own steady breathing, sincerely repeat these words : (one-hundred reps recommended) Snow-Cold Go Away Don’t Come Back Till Autumn Fades
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On a local chat site, a neighbor asks : “I want to plant bamboo. It’s so beautiful. Where can I find some.” Every respondent adamantly offers the same answer. “Don’t do it, because spreading bamboo is uncontrollable!” Here’s my take on bamboo in your garden. The many warnings about bamboo spreading are absolutely true. Watching new shoots emerge…