“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” (Lord Acton) You have likely heard the quote.  If you are human, alive and have some gray hair, you have also likely had a dose of personal experience. To find a few good examples of power run amok, one need only scan the news headlines of…

Life I see you. This Zulu greeting is offered when meeting another human soul.  Friend, kin or stranger, it is a nod to basic existence.  Sawubona.  I see you. There is a second part to this interchange, a response.  Ngikhona.  I am here. Implicit in this shared proclamation is the belief that we people are…

Follow your path.  Start where you are.   Beginning. Earlier this year I had an unexpected visitor.  The dogs responded to a ruckus in the yard and led me to the back left corner of our lot.  There in the darkness, making as much noise as possible to defend itself, was a critter tangled in the…

Tucked in the recesses of my mind are two complementary voices of a single theme – latent swirls of thought brought together by a hefty dose of prednisone and a lot of thinking time.  They are not pair as much as progression.  They are less ‘salt and pepper’ or ‘peas and carrots.’  Instead they are…

The Universe has a way of timing its stuff. A couple of weeks ago I sat parked in my car at Chick-fil-A listening to WUNC.  As I reclined, one foot out the window and prized sandwich (on wheat bun) in hand, the most fascinating story rolled. You see, there’s a psychology experiment that features some…

Act I Susan Boyle made world headlines this week for two seemingly opposing traits: 1) ugly woman, 2) with extraordinary talent. Forgive me if I offend you.  I do not believe this stranger we all now feel we know actually is ugly.  I believe the world is still shocked at her inner beauty, in spite…