View From Here: Personal Power

View From Here: Personal Power: The Bill Cosby case is a perfect example of personal power. He felt a need, a want; he reached for satisfaction; he was denied; until he...

View From Here: Balance of Power

View From Here: Balance of Power: Like the kids’ game Pick-Up Sticks, throw a bundle of stuff in the air and watch it land; then unscramble it. See who wins by picking up...

View From Here: Keeping On Point

View From Here: Keeping On Point: People Kill Not Guns.   People Kill Not Cars. Etcetera…   That was yesterday’s post. Today’s post is about sticking to the point. If we ...

View From Here: Guns Don’t Kill; People Kill

View From Here: Guns Don’t Kill; People Kill: Today’s title specifies guns but I use this as a broadside to all people who turn a complex issue into simple sound bites. Of course guns do...

View From Here: Pity or Petty?

View From Here: Pity or Petty?: The other day on  Facebook I ‘liked’ a photo and ‘shared’ it. Someone else posted the pic, but I supported it to go viral. It was a photo of...

View From Here: People Power

View From Here: People Power: So many of us feel powerless. Powerless to change, make change happen, understand what needs to change, realizing who is blocking change...

View From Here: Fresh and New

View From Here: Fresh and New: Each day we are reminded of old problems, those pesky challenges still begging for attention and a solution. Some days we are greeted wi...

View From Here: Spring Arrives Today!

View From Here: Spring Arrives Today!: I am not a weatherman but I do sense the mood of the people. They are ready for spring, especially those of us living in the Midwest. He...

View From Here: Centrist Struggles

View From Here: Centrist Struggles: As we mature, we become more educated, experience life both personally and organizationally, we change our perspectives on many things. ...

View From Here: Life vs War

View From Here: Life vs War: A personal journal and commentary on today’s issues . That’s the subtitle of my blog, View From Here. My journal or diary, personal and ...

View From Here: Trump Temblors

View From Here: Trump Temblors: My spouse – husband – partner was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. He has tremors in his left leg and foot. We have dubbed t...

View From Here: Yikes! Friday the 13th!

View From Here: Yikes! Friday the 13th!: Beware! Unless, of course, such superstitions don’t phase you. Mostly they don’t for me. So, on with my blather. I’m concerned about ...

View From Here: Pastors and Ministers

View From Here: Pastors and Ministers: I grew up in a family with a heritage of ministers. My grandfather was a minister; so was his father, and his father, going back many ge...

View From Here: Being Hard on Yourself

View From Here: Being Hard on Yourself: We blame ourselves for a lot of things – forgetting an appointment, saying the wrong thing, hearing something incorrectly, then respondi...

View From Here: Professionals

View From Here: Professionals: My right knee hurts. Went to an orthopedic doctor. He had an MRI taken to add to the most recent x-ray. Arthritis in both knees, but not...

View From Here: Time for Calm

View From Here: Time for Calm: The stock markets swing one way, then another. They jump and then slump. Thousands of points up and down in the pasts few months. This i...

View From Here: What Do We Need?

View From Here: What Do We Need?: That is both a rhetorical question and a real one. In my heart and soul I want to pose the right question and match it with the right an...

View From Here: MLK Memory

View From Here: MLK Memory: I write this on April 4 th . It is the 50 th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in Memphis. That event was vicious and ...

View From Here: Inner Voices

View From Here: Inner Voices: I visited this topic earlier a few months ago. I’m referring to the ‘voice’ we have inside our minds. We converse with it and through it...

View From Here: Thoughts on Art

View From Here: Thoughts on Art: Taking things for granted is common in our busy culture. Good things are encountered without our thinking of them. A small pause uncover...

View From Here: New Times

View From Here: New Times: Easter has now passed. A new church year. A marking, too, of spring and flowers bursting from hibernation. Tulips and Daffodils. Bright ...