View From Here: Participation Limits

View From Here: Participation Limits: I was thinking the other day what good feelings are generated when volunteers show up to help a project work well. The idea that the volunt...

View From Here: Engage then Share

View From Here: Engage then Share: No man is an island. We learned that in junior high school. The lesson was iterated many times in subsequent years through high school and ...

View From Here: Voter Error

View From Here: Voter Error: Definition: Voter error occurs each and every time someone votes for a candidate, candidates, political party or referendum issue when they...

View From Here: Brexit Shmexit!

View From Here: Brexit Shmexit!: It is unfortunate that Britons voted to remove themselves from the European Union. They are European. Like it or not they and history are u...

Announcing the Stonewall National Monument

View From Here: Perfect Storm Politics

View From Here: Perfect Storm Politics: This election year may seem chaotic. It is! We have a candidate for President who can get things done because she knows the ropes, understa...

View From Here: Ideas – Processes – Outcomes

View From Here: Ideas – Processes – Outcomes: Awoke in the middle of the night thinking about these three related items. What do we do with our thinking, our ideas ? Are they mushed thr...

View From Here: Impatience and Some Anger

View From Here: Impatience and Some Anger: Last week following the massacre at the Orlando , Florida gay nightclub, I experienced many emotions. After a couple of days I realized I ...

View From Here: Killing the Future

View From Here: Killing the Future: In my lifetime JFK was assassinated. Then Martin Luther King, Jr., then Bobby Kennedy. And then random murders escalated. Cities became kil...

Victims Of Orlando Shooting Had Guardian Angels At Funerals

View From Here: Crazy Times

View From Here: Crazy Times: America is not an empire. It does not have desires to become an empire. American people are generous and will help those who are down and ...

'We Are Orlando' Rays vs. Giants June 17, 2016

View From Here: Changing the Script

View From Here: Changing the Script: What script? The social script of discussion. What do we talk about? What interests us and what drives that interest? Is it hope, fear, hor...

View From Here: Gun Control?

View From Here: Gun Control?: Another mass shooting, this time in Orlando , Florida . At a gay night club attended by a broad and diverse array of people. All comfortabl...

View From Here: Chicago Pilgrimage

View From Here: Chicago Pilgrimage: Moody household Tuesday, June 14. Rewrote some blogs, reordered what I had planned to post, and then, at breakfast, we discussed our mood. ...

View From Here: Bloody Sunday – Part 2

View From Here: Bloody Sunday – Part 2: I wrote a piece about this shooting and placed it in the line up of posts for my blog. It slipped into the date for Friday, June 17. Howeve...

View From Here: Opening Communications

View From Here: Opening Communications: I’ve worked in and with a lot of organizations in my time. That work requires a lot of talk and written communications. Sitting around a ta...

View From Here: Bloody Sunday; Bloody Gay Sunday

View From Here: Bloody Sunday; Bloody Gay Sunday: It is 11:30 pm, June 12th. Went to bed at 8:30. Exhausted from the day’s news of horror in Orlando . Oddly paired with this day was our con...

View From Here: Treasuring Our Pastor Wende

View From Here: Treasuring Our Pastor Wende: There are moments I catch myself staring at her during services. She is alert, sensitive and calm. She leads us through worship services ca...

View From Here: Rio or Bust?

View From Here: Rio or Bust?: Well, there’s something to think about. The Olympics are a treasured global icon of culture because it crosses national boundaries and and ...

View From Here: Anger and Fear

View From Here: Anger and Fear: The public is angry. Frustrated. Fearful. Caught in a web of confusion over what is happening in their country, their families and their go...

View From Here: Finding Your Way

View From Here: Finding Your Way: I have said before that spending time with teen addicts has helped me think things out. Not always sure what direction the thinking is goin...

View From Here: Here’s What the Election Should Be About

View From Here: Here’s What the Election Should Be About: The country is frustrated across the board with the state of affairs in the land. Before we address their frustrations, however, let’s try ...

View From Here: Hillary and Her Emails

View From Here: Hillary and Her Emails: What’s a person to think? Did she or didn’t she commit an egregious error in using a private email server at her home while Secretary of St...

View From Here: Making Sense of …?

View From Here: Making Sense of …?: Well that’s a leading question. Increasingly I realize I do not have the answers I would like to for many questions. Sometimes I wonder if ...

View From Here: Stoking Unrest

View From Here: Stoking Unrest: I avoid watching TV news. It is rarely fully informative because it has time limits on each story and sound bite. And the bites alone don’t...