As I said in perhaps my first-ever post about missing children , “These events seem most often to occur when adults have rendered total...

A parable of relief vs. advocacy “Relief” refers to providing for needy people’s immediate survival needs — food, shelter and clothing,...

Again, there is no truth without love. The report is pretty bare-bones as it is, so I will merely reproduce it rather than try to...

The problem isn’t that the system’s white. The problem is that it’s a system at all. I first meant to title this, “Choosing disorder,”...

(1) Clairvoyance isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. (2) It’s a mistake to ASSUME what sort of healing someone wants. Kevin This young man...

What does “acting strangely” mean? Suspect in Mall of America stabbing identified A stabbing at the Mall of America made national TV...

You can live in a nice house in a safe neighborhood NOW if you make it that way. It’s not about physical relocation, but spiritual. This...

Saturday, April 14, 2018 Sometimes, the most momentous events are most easily forgotten. This morning on my walk from the hotel to...

Monday, March 12, 2018 This addict — from the way he acts, and the way he is in conversation, you’d never suppose he has a problem —...

Part I: Issues with upcoming posts If I’ve learned anything in the past two years, it’s this: (1) The Way of Peace works, and my...

Miscellaneous notes about accepting bad feelings. [Second in a series.] One afternoon some years back, I hooked up with my bud Brian...

☺ Please donate! ☺ Sunday 2017-02-26 My prayer for myself today was that I “come into a world where my diligence will be rewarded.” A...

The seductiveness of turmoil. Thursday, August 25, 2016 My foremost task for today is to keep myself focused on the practical things I...

A grassy lot inspires a vision of what can be when a community cares for itself. When I take the bus to church in the morning, I normally...

Bookmarks: 1975 “cold” case solved • When addicts have babies • Black self-segregation ———— ♦ ———— The disappearance of the Lyon...

From my diary for Friday 2015-05-01: Ta-Nehisi Coates has had two “provocative” HuffPost columns in two days. Wednesday she decried...

(Originally posted June 22, 2013 at Trojan Horse Productions . Reblogged 2019-11-14 .) My normal day runs as follows. After breakfast...

(Originally published 06/05/13 at Trojan Horse Productions . Reblogged 01/17/19 .) Short life of Carter Scott marred by accusations of...