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I wish I didn’t care… I wish I didn’t care that Pres. Trump is circumventing Congress to finance the porous wall between the United States and Mexico. I wish I didn’t care about the precedent it sets. I wish I didn’t care that many immediately opposed
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Consistent with our current conversation, years ago we pondered the following… One cold night, as an Arab sat in his tent, a camel gently thrust his nose under the flap and looked in. “Master,” he said, “let me put my nose in your tent. It’s cold and stormy out
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We’ve heard the legend of the boiled frog. Put a frog in hot water; it will jump right out. Start it in a body of water that’s cooler; it will soothe itself and stay. As condensed by Lessons4Living.com… [all emphasis mine]… “Put a pot of cool water
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In conjunction with the President's State of the Union Address, we have annually, semi-humbly offered our annual "State of the Government” analysis. Consistently in that analysis, we’ve opined the following… Our government is: 1. Too partisan 2. Too influenced by money 3. Too big 4.
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One of the most challenging aspects of current culture (even among the intelligent) is that we continue to craft our world as one full of binary choices… You must be this or that… for or against… black or white… as if there are only two possible ways to react to
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We ended Part I with the following: “As Dr. King repeatedly, boldly shared, we are all equally created by God. That was the message from Dr. King. However — and this is key — some people miss the ‘created equal’ part — others people miss the ‘by God’ part. People too often omit
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Several years ago, I walked into a slightly-populated, small hospital waiting room in need of a break and a bite. I was the only woman. I was also the only white person. Already gathered were five or six, African-American men. The men were engaged in conversation. I sat
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By now many have heard of the weekend encounter between a group of predominantly white teenage boys attending the annual March for Life and an older Native American man attending the inaugural Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, D.C. Here’s how the New York Times led with Saturday’s
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This week I had an unfortunate conflict with a client. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of conflict; however, learning to work through conflict in a healthy way is a necessary life skill. Allow me to first share some brief background, which will aid in reaching the
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If you’ve been a longtime reader of the Intramuralist, you’ll know that the question mark is my favorite punctuation piece. Why? Because no other mark invites a response. Let us thus discuss the events of the today via questions — 20, in fact. Some are mine, some are not…
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Warning: this might be my least popular blog post. Ever. It also is relevant and true. I therefore encourage you to proceed with caution. Read at your own risk. I have zero intent to disrespect. We’ve come to 2019, where our world continues to clunkily seek its way of
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While we were focused on the meaning and merry of recent holidays and resolutions, the federal government quit working efficiently and effectively. Oh, wait… allow me to insert a total opinion here… the federal government quit working efficiently and effectively years ago. (These past few weeks it’s just a