The first day Wikileaks appeared (to me), I researched Assange. He ran for congress in 2013 in the Australian preferential system. A system where all votes are counted. A party recommends to its constituency who their second choice should be - and the voters often, even usually follow suit. Assange selected Australia First. Australia First … Continue reading Progressive Regression – Lies We Tell Ourselves About The Lies We Told Others

Many of the people devotedly espousing positive perspective - teaching on energy, manifestation and the laws of attraction are white, middle class-to- wealthy, privileged and most generally immune to any of the ramifications the present administration represents to the marginalized citizens of this country. This does not diminish the love and deep humanity within the … Continue reading Teachers, Healers & Initiates

Democrats, independents, progressives, people of conscience; we're in the minority now in a way we haven't been in recent history - on new terrain never before traversed. We don’t face the type of majority opposition we’ve experienced in the past. Across the aisle might as well be across the abyss with respect to behavioral norms … Continue reading Pragmatism Or Powerlessness

Someone riding with me in my car yesterday posed a rhetorical question. I'm glad it was rhetorical, though disappointed it was asked with the conspicuous disdain so many carry for the people in their own communities with mental health problems - or in the late stages of drug and alcohol addiction, and the distinguishable toll it places … Continue reading Other Plans

Summer Solstice arrived again. I sat there stalled… knowing it really was time to clear. Time to recognize my intention and see what I had set it upon. We often think of setting intention without looking at where we left it last ... or how far from there it drifted when at long last left … Continue reading Setting Intention in The Setting Sun of Solstice

I’ve never felt such a hard and deepening blow as the departure and absence of David from my life. Still, I am unable to use the word ‘loss’, even in the wake of tremendous grief and heartbreak. The gift of David has been too profound … too enormous … too exquisite to use a word … Continue reading David Bruce Fitzpatrick