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The Great Lies: curtal sonnet
When all at once the world decides to fail, on such and such a day, when pundits claim to clearly see our leaders in the ooze of mad careening chaos, and then rail, without a single scrap or crumb of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, blame, curtal sonnet, decisions, hypocrisy, leadership, poetic forms
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Thoughts on the Power of Authority
Today, an online friend sent me the following message, I assume intended to inspire: “THE POWER OF AUTHORITY: When we speak, we must speak with authority; when we walk, we must walk with authority; when we showcase our talents, we … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged authority, change, leadership, power, problem-solving, respect
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What price a pawn
What price paid by a pawn who makes, if merely by sheer luck or chance, its way through fields strewn by mistakes in focused, single step advance to the far end of what it knows, where all the trappings of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged coersion, control, daily poems, games, hierarchies, leadership, power, sacrifice
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Emergency Petition to Save the Courts
MoveOn.org has got a petition drive going that’s worth looking in to. I did, and here’s the message I sent to my Congresspeople: Checks and balances means when one branch of the government is conservative, another is by necessity liberal. … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged activism, balance, correspondence, democracy, governments, leadership, partisanship
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Standards for Government Officials
What do you think of this? First: Liberality, generosity, charity. The representative should not have craving and attachment to wealth and property, but should give it away for the welfare of the people. Second: A high moral character. The representative … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, Dhammapadatthakatha, governments, Guatama Buddha, leadership, public service
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Question On Prophets
How does one, not having enlightenment (or grace or whatever you like to call it) recognize that someone else is enlightened? How does someone without the benefit of having seen Nirvana (or the face of God or the underlying principle … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged acceptance, enlightenment, epiphany, gurus, leadership, prophecy
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What is a Leader of the Free World?
Watching the joyous celebrations by the people of Iraq, and the continuing news broadcasts hinting that demonstrators on both sides of the war and anti-war campaign might now be more or less inclined to comment, I began thinking about something. … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, America, domestic policy, international affairs, leadership, nationalism, politics
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