INTEGRITY OF LIFE

Disease is not abnormal. The pandemic is not abnormal. The conditions of life right now are normal and have been since the pre-Cambrian era.

What happens to a country that is divided the way we are?

Sometimes there is no happy ending.

We’re not any good at threat assessment. Familiar dangers are ignored, while the most remote ones seem the most fearsome.

Convenience is killing community, and late-stage capitalism is delighted.

Which way will our enslavement to computers go in the next few years?

Are we wasting our human resources by trying to keep them safe?

Who is right? Will staying at home or going back to work result in more people dying? We don’t know.

Ultimately nature will achieve the balance that it is always aiming for – with us or without us.

There is an objectivity, a humble self-forgetfulness, in recognizing the beauty that exists even when life is a wreck.

What concerns me today is who we’ll choose to be, once this has settled down and the prospect for a new normal seems possible.

To encourage alternate ways to approach ourselves and the world, this week I offer two poems rather than an essay.

Why is anxiety disorder more common in wealthy countries than in disadvantaged ones?

Offer one change to our current economic system that would be an imaginative solution to a pressing issue. Unfettered thinking required.

Applying the concepts of sustainability, balance, stability, and maturity in all aspects of life.

How do people find integrity of life in a crazy society?

Many Americans take for granted, even idealize, the ideal of personal autonomy: they call it independence, self-sufficiency,...

A report on The Front Porch Republic's 2019 conference in Louisville, Kentucky.

If you’re gone and your house catches fire, it’s your obnoxious neighbor who calls the fire department, not your online soul mate.

Weigh in, define, argue, narrate, opine, and analyze.