Discovery of reality
byLove is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love … is the discovery…
Power of recognition
by the daily asteriskPeople view hospitality as quaint and tame partly because they do not understand the power of recognition. When a person who is not valued…
Dying country
by the daily asteriskI tell you a closed country is a dying country, just as a closed mind is a dying mind. Zoltan in Bravo!: Play in Three…
Remember and change
by the daily asteriskThe challenge of reconciliation is how to open the social space that permits and encourages individuals and societies to acknowledge the past, mourn the…
We can welcome
by the daily asteriskOne of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals….
Authentic persons
by the daily asteriskSocial interaction is organized around the boxes and lines on the social checkerboard. We relate primarily to persons in our own square and in…
Outsiders
by the daily asterisk{Deviance} is created by society. I do not mean this in the way it is ordinarily understood, in which the causes of deviance are…
To blame the immigrant
by the daily asteriskThe political winds of imperial conquest and settlement, and the global economic currents of boom and bust, push and pull people like great tides….
Which side
by the daily asteriskThere was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it,…
Power is fortified
by the daily asteriskPower is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by…