View From Here: Trust

View From Here: Trust: Our world is built on trust. Blunt statement. Truth, too. The dollar bill is worth $1 because we expect it to be so; and we prove that ...

View From Here: Getting the Most Out of Life

View From Here: Getting the Most Out of Life: Life has many challenges. We struggle on many fronts to build a happy life. Finding the right line of education that speaks to our interest...

View From Here: Free Speech; Free Elections

View From Here: Free Speech; Free Elections: Our friends in France have had a rough election season. They have had many candidates for head of their government. Macron and Le Pen came...

View From Here: Left Behind

View From Here: Left Behind: No, this post has nothing to do with the novel series about spontaneous, Christian redemption! Rather, this essay deals with the issue of l...

View From Here: Visionary

View From Here: Visionary: I grew up in an age of realism. The ball was real; so too the bat. And the house, car, stove. Later we learned other words like fast, hot, ...

View From Here: Of Moment

View From Here: Of Moment: All the pieces of the puzzle are on the table. The box lid claims 1000 pieces! The photo cover is interesting but complex, intensely so. Co...

View From Here: Death of Reason

View From Here: Death of Reason: It has been inching along for many years. Someone takes a bit of liberty with a story and what was intended to be a news report is now a ta...

View From Here: Finding Solutions in Disagreement

View From Here: Finding Solutions in Disagreement: Watched a TED talk on finding agreement amidst controversy. Specifically two conservatives – one a TV host and pundit, the other a New York...

View From Here: Wonder Power

View From Here: Wonder Power: While working with the teen addicts the other evening, I asked them to tell the group what they wondered about? What did they want to under...

View From Here: War and Peace

View From Here: War and Peace: How long has it been since we were last involved in hostilities? Ever? How long was the peace we ever experienced in history as a nation? S...

View From Here: International Relations

View From Here: International Relations: It is no mystery why international relations are a key element of the President’s job. The most critical function of the Federal Government...

View From Here: Importance of Being Earnest

View From Here: Importance of Being Earnest: Being serious of mind and tongue takes discipline. Being flip of tongue shows not wit but unthinking. Bon mots are often entertaining but t...

View From Here: So It Goes

View From Here: So It Goes: Day after day. Hour after hour. Time passes. We survive. And wonder how that happened. Before we wondered what it would be like if the ...

View From Here: Trust and NEXUS

View From Here: Trust and NEXUS: The ‘nuclear option’ in the US Senate. Accusations of infidelity of public trust roiling among democrats and republicans over the Supreme C...

View From Here: Nuancing the Future

View From Here: Nuancing the Future: I sit at the computer keyboard. I think about the condition of our nation, our city, county, neighborhood. I look out the window at dreary ...

View From Here: Local Elections

View From Here: Local Elections: Tuesday, April 4 th was election day throughout Illinois . Countless school funding referenda were considered by voters, as well as board ...

View From Here: Gutting Communities

View From Here: Gutting Communities: I read a story carried by MSN this yesterday. It was on the dwindling fate of Lancaster , Ohio . The full story is told in a book entitled...

View From Here: Three Different Pieces

View From Here: Three Different Pieces: Here are a just a few key issue areas now in the news: what to do about North Korea; do wealthy public servants matter for the common good ...

View From Here: Working Across the Aisle

View From Here: Working Across the Aisle: For many years Congress has observed strict separation of the political parties. They do not talk much with one another. They do little com...