View From Here: Common Cause

View From Here: Common Cause: Our nation is one of the people, by the people, and for the people. We get to decide what it is we want in our lives, from our lives, and b...

View From Here: Press Secretary vs Fake News

View From Here: Press Secretary vs Fake News: Evidently Sean Spicer couldn’t hack the job as Press Secretary at the White House. Where he will end up in the trump administration is anyo...

View From Here: Outcomes Wanted

View From Here: Outcomes Wanted: It seems to me that Americans talk a lot and complain a lot. The more this goes on the angrier people get. Often the anger is not about dis...

View From Here: Trusting Government

View From Here: Trusting Government: I’ve been a student of politics most of my life and I’m now well into my 70’s. I’ve had doubts from time to time whether representatives tr...

View From Here: Letting it Sink In

View From Here: Letting it Sink In: "You just don’t get it,” the man shouted. “You don’t understand what I’m talking about.” And he was right, still is right! I don’t und...

View From Here: Civility Model

View From Here: Civility Model: In my work with SCORE I meet face to face with people who have ideas for new businesses, or already have small businesses in need of some h...

View From Here: Learning, Listening, Doing

View From Here: Learning, Listening, Doing: Yesterday’s post was on listening. Giving other people a chance to be heard. That makes them feel respected and valued. It also gives you a...

View From Here: A Case for Listening

View From Here: A Case for Listening: You have an opinion on an issue. I do as well. Others also hold a view. Not likely will these views agree with one another. Why? Because we...

View From Here: We Have a Situation

View From Here: We Have a Situation: Trump’s leadership is in disarray; never was in sharp focus. That’s the situation and anyone who refutes that is either a blind Trump l...

View From Here: Guns Guns Guns

View From Here: Guns Guns Guns: Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those are not my words; they have been around for centuries, probably in the Bible. Maybe other histor...

View From Here: Guns Guns Guns

View From Here: Guns Guns Guns: Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those are not my words; they have been around for centuries, probably in the Bible. Maybe other histor...

View From Here: Concept of Fun

View From Here: Concept of Fun: I was at a meeting the other night at church. Our job was to select themes for music, hymns and other items that go with the liturgical yea...

View From Here: Getting My Head Around Something

View From Here: Getting My Head Around Something: Let’s see, someone asks if I can help them with making their small business more successful. I ask about the nature of the business and wha...

View From Here: Choosing the Best

View From Here: Choosing the Best: We make choices all through life. Who to vote for is far down the list compared with who to partner with for life! Which car to buy is a le...

View From Here: America Struggles for Community

View From Here: America Struggles for Community: Over time we all see our communities shift from one sort of identity to another. Why this occurs varies from time to time and whatever is c...

View From Here: Building Community

View From Here: Building Community: Thinking back over my career and current involvements, I’d have to conclude that my life has been spent building community. I use a broader...

View From Here: Being Cool in 2017

View From Here: Being Cool in 2017: Cool? At 74 years of age? Now there’s a challenge. No teachers are at hand to help the elder learn what cool means these days. In the old d...

View From Here: Blog Draft June 8More Bad NewsNews headlines jus...

View From Here: Blog Draft June 8
More Bad News
News headlines jus...: Blog Draft June 8 More Bad News News headlines just keep coming. Mostly they are not good when it comes to stories on the White Hou...

View From Here: Civility

View From Here: Civility: How well we get along with one another in public is the topic for today’s blog. I know that public civility has been better than today’s, b...

View From Here: Up, Down, Backwards, Forw…..

View From Here: Up, Down, Backwards, Forw…..: What you say to me I tend to believe. In return you will tend to believe what I tell you. Until one of us is caught in a shading of the tal...

View From Here: Paris Climate Accord Withdrawal

View From Here: Paris Climate Accord Withdrawal: On Thursday June 1 president trump withdrew the United States from the International Paris Climate Accord. Nicaragua , Syria and the USA ...

View From Here: Roots of America’s Collapse

View From Here: Roots of America’s Collapse: I refer again to an article written by Umir Haque. In that article Haque states America is in a state of collapse. And in a state of chaos...

View From Here: Collapse and Chaos?

View From Here: Collapse and Chaos?: I read an article the other day that predicts that because  America is broken, collapse and chaos will consume the nation. I understand th...