An insidious oil spill is crawling darkly toward the pristine Gulf Coast beaches and marshlands, unleashed last week when the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded.  Somewhere in the darkness underneath that oil spill, 11 workers from that rig are missing and presumed dead…eerily reminiscent of the 29 West Virginia miners buried in the darkness of earth’s rubble just a few weeks ago in the Upper Big Branch Mine, owned by Massey Energy Co.  The folks that were killed were American heroes – America’s working poor – the vast majority of whom never have the job opportunities provide more

In these days of scandal – Toyota, the Roman Catholic Church, GOP funds spent in a Hollywood bondage club – to name just a few,  let’s revisit a very old word from 14^th century France… According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: Main Entry: in·teg·ri·ty Pronunciation: \in-ˈte-grə-tē\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English integrite, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French integrité, from Latin integritat-, integritas, from integr-, integer entire more

When confronting life’s challenges, do you have a rigid, fixed perspective? Or are you flexible and resilient?  Dr. Angeles Arrien, a multicultural anthropologist and author of The Four Fold Way, uses the phrase – Open and Not Attached to Outcome – to describe one of the key life lessons she has learned from the world’s indigenous people.  What a simple pearl of profound wisdom! more