View From Here: Ho Hum!

View From Here: Ho Hum!: There is a story I have to tell. It involves contacts of daily frequency. Friends, colleagues, associates. People just like you and I, pl...

View From Here: Need or Want?

View From Here: Need or Want?: There’s an organization named American Voice of Reason.  One of their quotes goes like this:             “We don’t need big governmen...

View From Here: Lessons

View From Here: Lessons: Hot stove, burned fingers. Shove lawnmower with foot, slashed toes from whirling blade. Smile from stranger yields smile from me. Somethi...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Just a little one. From Kurt Vonnegut. In a work entitled A Man Without a Country, he said: “For some reason, the most vocal Christia...

View From Here: What's the Gripe?

View From Here: What's the Gripe?: An entire blog could be written on gripes – mine, yours, theirs – oh heck! There are already blogs covering the same thing. In fact that’...

View From Here: Building Bridges

View From Here: Building Bridges: I have often wondered how to bridge the divide between the straight and gay worlds. When people talk about this subject emotions tend to ...

View From Here: Random Thoughts

View From Here: Random Thoughts: Today I want to focus attention on a few random thoughts. I ...

View From Here: Wondering About the Future

View From Here: Wondering About the Future: This topic is near and dear to my heart. I've been a practicing consultant in strategic planning for 22 years and now retired. Mostly...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Behavior versus Beliefs A simple exercise today. What makes you a better person? Your beliefs or your behavior? Beliefs are the u...

View From Here: To Move or...

View From Here: To Move or...: We are contemplating a move. Our home is worth less than the mortgage and we can no longer afford the mortgage and tax escrow payments. C...

View From Here: Taking Food from a Baby

View From Here: Taking Food from a Baby: I am often befuddled by the confusion some people have over the interdependence we have with each other. We live among many people and ne...

View From Here: Struggles to do Right

View From Here: Struggles to do Right: I don’t know who she is – Lynda Field – but she shared this thought that made it to the internet some days ago:             “No perso...

View From Here: Cold Wind Alone

View From Here: Cold Wind Alone: Riding a bus through Middle America during college days. Those were long trips from upstate New York to central Illinois . And any vis...

View From Here: Of, For and By the People

View From Here: Of, For and By the People: Bernie Sanders, Senator (I) of Vermont , shares this thought with us: “We all remember Abraham Lincoln’s wonderful remarks at Gettysb...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Church and State I've written on separation of Church and State before. Several times in fact. But today I share this ‘did you kn...

View From Here: Ego and Serving Others

View From Here: Ego and Serving Others: I interact with a lot of people who have problems. Admittedly they have problems; they tell me so. I too admit my frailties. Lack of pe...

View From Here: Adding to Yesterday's Post

View From Here: Adding to Yesterday's Post: OK, go back to yesterday’s blog. Re-read it. It’s on parasites, remember? And just who is the parasite these days? Well, that think...

View From Here: On Being Busy

View From Here: On Being Busy: I was struck the other day by a thought: why are people so busy but not accomplishing much? I let this brew for days but kept coming back...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Losing Sight of the Basics It is common for us to lose touch with some simple basics. Life is busy and tends to distract us from fact...

View From Here: Compelling Arguments

View From Here: Compelling Arguments: So you pick up your local newspaper and find a headline that signals a dispute in the city council. Reading further you learn that during a...

View From Here: Happy Fourth of July!

View From Here: Happy Fourth of July!: Some of you know three friends and I started a community newspaper over five years ago. It was called the Warrenville Sentinel. Warrenville...

View From Here: Believing in Process

View From Here: Believing in Process: The US Constitution provides the structure for America ’s governance. Our governance. Similar constitutions in each of the 50 states prov...

View From Here: Marriage Equality

View From Here: Marriage Equality: Straights versus Gays. Marriage or not; maybe domestic partnerships? Does one hurt the other? Or not? I think Americans generally agr...

View From Here: Use of Public Assets

View From Here: Use of Public Assets: I’m worked up about something.  The 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that Hobby Lobby, a family owned for profit company can b...