View From Here: Regeneration

View From Here: Regeneration: The end of 2019 is the gateway to 2020. Out with the old and in with the new. Possibilities. Potential. Hopes and dreams for renewal in w...

View From Here: People in Our Lives

View From Here: People in Our Lives: So many people in our lives at any given moment. New acquaintances enter, some leave our circle. Longtime friends drift off to the sideli...

View From Here: Brokenness

View From Here: Brokenness: If Christmas is anything, it is a reminder and a loud clarion call that the world is broken and needs us to come to its aid. Faith in the...

View From Here: Christmas Eve

View From Here: Christmas Eve: So many memories. Of this time of year. Generations of memories. So many people involved, so many of them now gone from the present. Stil...

View From Here: Trial, Process, Justice

View From Here: Trial, Process, Justice: Both pro and anti-trump fans decry injustice, fairness, process, and transparency. They are both wrong. Mr. trump came into the Whit...

View From Here: Life Goes On

View From Here: Life Goes On: Impeached one day. Finally. A concrete step taken in repudiation to all the bluster, bragging, empty threats, empty promises, strutting, ...

View From Here: The Die Is Cast

View From Here: The Die Is Cast: The impeachment vote went as expected. Trump is now only the third president to be impeached. Now for the Senate and its inevitable repud...

View From Here: Party Sham

View From Here: Party Sham: If we want a society of fairness, honesty and truth, we need people of independence. Party ties are the opposite. Party politics care abo...

View From Here: Blithering Issues

View From Here: Blithering Issues: A lot of things are on the minds of fellow citizens.   For some it is rent, or mortgage payments paid on time. For others it is car payme...

View From Here: Connectedness

View From Here: Connectedness: The phone rings. I answer it. Two people talk with each other and life goes on. An email chirps its presence and communication is shared....

View From Here: Retirement?

View From Here: Retirement?: As a young worker starting his career, I wondered about retirement and how to prepare for it.   I was 23.  My dad was facing retirement a...

View From Here: Waning Diversity?

View From Here: Waning Diversity?: Anyone who claims this is true is not paying close attention. More women than men pursue higher education. More African Americans, H...

View From Here: Adaption

View From Here: Adaption: We talk about truth speaking to power. We have an image of that in our mind, don’t we? The defense attorney speaking to the jury, summari...

View From Here: Ugly Truths

View From Here: Ugly Truths: The season of hope and joy is here. It is Christmas Time 2019. There is much to be grateful for. There are great reasons to smile. At the...

View From Here: Knowing What it Means

View From Here: Knowing What it Means: On the first Tuesday of each month, a small band of west suburban DuPage County citizens sit down and discuss issues that matter. One iss...

View From Here: Dark Days, Long Nights

View From Here: Dark Days, Long Nights: Fifty one years ago I prepped for a wedding, mine/ours. It was cold. I was an impoverished seminary student. My parents were wending thei...

View From Here: Becoming

View From Here: Becoming: Always changing. You. Me. Others. Time. Events. Facts butting against other facts. Changing. Morphing. Becoming. This is what w...

View From Here: I’ll Be Seeing Yule

View From Here: I’ll Be Seeing Yule: Christmastide is here. The march from Thanksgiving to Christmas and the New Year. Doesn’t seem possible that another holiday season is in...