The “dog days” continue now into spring and early summer. Not the “dog days of summer,” as the expression usually goes, but the dog days of recession. Recession relentlessly drags on in our spirits, even when reports of economic renewa...
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Tagged As: dog gays, housing, moral imperative, national debt crisis, recession, unemployment
Posted on May 22nd, 2010 by
dbrlifew in
Social Commentary
How many times have you pushed yourself to exhaustion toward an elusive goal, tried to speed things up, took one step further than you planned, and thus reached beyond a point the little voice inside said was wise? For myself, I can count all too many times!...
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Tagged As: BP, environment, humanity, Oil, values
We can do most to change the outlook of others by first changing our own perspective. We too often preach peace and love with prevailing and often unacknowledged anger in our hearts. I know I personally hold much anger in my heart and I feel it more intensely ...
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Tagged As: Buddha, Christ, compassion, condemnation, God, Good, judgment, love, Peace, Religion, Right, war, wrong
We are all one and the hardship of one affects us all. The value of this knowledge lies in understanding that helping others or preserving our shared environment leads not to shared deprivation, as some insist, but to real and sustainable prosperity and plenty...
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Tagged As: Ethics, Guide-Dogs, Hendricks, Hunger, Morality, Secret
Posted on April 19th, 2009 by
dbrlifew in
Commentary,
Social Commentary
Recent “tea parties,” organized by those opposed to taxation, exposed deep-seated feelings of bitterness and fearful suspicion of progressive change held by many in our country. This bitterness and suspicion exhibit a nagging pain often unrecognize...
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Tagged As: anger, Bitterness, Social change
A guide dog ambassador for peace. What we can learn from these peace loving companions.
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Tagged As: California, Comentary, community, dob guide, Guide Dog, Oregon, Peace, service dogs, Social Commentary
Posted on November 11th, 2008 by
dbrlifew in
General,
Social Commentary
First, “love one another!” – that is: “get along with each other without being overcome with disagreement!” Keith Olberman got it right in his special comment – the rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you!...
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Tagged As: California, community, Marriage, Morality, Politics, Proposition 8, Same Sex Marriage, Social Commentary, Tradition, Traditional