Thucydides, our young citizens, and our election

https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/ancient-history/thucydides Having reviewed But realism is tempered with idealism. We are indeed tired as a nation of ethical failures in politics. I read my young daughter’s recent IG story. She discusses lesser of two evils in her exhortation to vote. It truly touched my heart.It is so eloquently expressed. As an election official, she placedContinue reading “Thucydides, our young citizens, and our election”

A Child of the 70’s Views Today

As a child of the 1970’s, I remember the first Earth Day. And that child within me is scared. First, about fifteen years ago, I stopped reading National Geographic. The stories of extinction, threatened species and devastated ecosystems was upsetting to me. Then came the 1980’s and 1990’s with warnings from the climate change scientists.Continue reading “A Child of the 70’s Views Today”

Vicious Economics and Redemption

A vicious cycle of economics and disease has appeared in front of me. Like a wraith from one of the the departed souls of the pandemic, it whispers that those who have less money in US society will soom be lessened into non-existence. Poor nutrition, cramped, unreliable housing, lack of worker benefits like equal pay,Continue reading “Vicious Economics and Redemption”

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