Twenty-five years ago, I skipped a conference in San Francisco, drove north, and walked among the coast redwoods at Muir Woods. I was lonely and a little lost. The trees didn't care. That turned out to be the point.
#WhatTreesKnow #PlantIntelligence #Redwoods #Philosophy
In 20 years of EMS, nobody on my crew ever asked a patient’s orientation before starting treatment. The duty to help isn’t conditional. Full stop.
On Easter morning, the president threatened war crimes and mocked Islam. His defense secretary prays for "no mercy" from the Pentagon. Israel applies the Gaza model to Lebanon. Congress does nothing. We have lost our moral compass, and the people under the bombs are paying the price.
The noise insists this is complicated. It is not. A poem about bombs, borders, raindrops, and what you owe the person drowning in front of you.
We stamp our names on buildings because we're afraid of disappearing. Ernest Becker knew this. So did Tacitus. The gold letters don't satisfy — they can't. What actually outlasts us looks nothing like a monument. New on Gryphon's Perch.
#Legacy #HumanNature #Philosophy #Leadership #WhatOutlastsUs
He held the big questions open his whole life, and carried thirty years of MS without making it the center of the room. A piece about grief, waves, and a particular kind of courage.
#Grief, #Philosophy, #WhatWavesKnow
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Describing military strikes as something to do "just for fun" when at least 13 American service members and countless civilians have been killed raises serious moral issues. These are not the words of a man who cares about anybody but himself.
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Trump said the U.S. could "hit it just a few more times just for fun." This is your Idiot-in-Chief, America. He thinks war is fun. His sons are safely hiding behind their wealth, just like their father did.
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Carl Sagan died the year before The Demon-Haunted World stopped feeling like a warning and started feeling like a description. New essay on following evidence, asking who benefits, and finding that what's real and knowable is enough.
#CarlSagan #Epistemology #CuiBono #CriticalThinking #GryphonsPerch
For an eighty-year-old veteran fighting a quiet war for thirty years. And for my children inheriting a difficult world. It's about harbors, and why we leave them.
#Resilience #Perseverance #GryphonsPerch
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“America would issue a 30-day sanctions waiver for Russian oil” for ships headed to India and “America waived sanctions indefinitely on the German subsidiary of [Russia’s] Rosneft. This is what cowards Do when all they care about is money.
While the system has functioned as designed, Trump pivoted to a different legal authority (Section 122), which will need to go through the courts again. Eventually, he runs out of options, but he's stressing the system. It's time for him to be removed.
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Why does this administration make everything political? Do people seriously believe this crap?
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Did we expect any other behavior from the person who protects a pedo and supports the murder of her fellow citizens?
Sad. May we return to reasonable behavior before we reach the point of no return.
Trump, plans to rescind scientific findings that tied CO2 to health dangers. Y‘all going along with this? Vote them out. Make America Smart Again. #climate #earth
Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.
Unidos somos América.
A heart full of love has no room for hate.
Bring it on! It’s long since past the time we take out the billionaire class. They are the real problem.
Everybody in the US is entitled to due process, even if they are assumed to be murderers. Innocent until proven guilty. That is our way.
Insane that we are passing local laws to protect citizens from the national government. Rhetorical question: When has that ever happened?
"There is almost nothing normal now in the United States," - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
America, if we do only one thing this year, it's to vote on November 3rd, 2026 ... It's pretty much our last chance to save our democracy.
Well, the top 1% of the population owns 20% of the country’s resources and pays zero taxes. So when you start decimating that 1% - boom, there‘s plenty to go around.
I guess that was a bad business move.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Very much enjoyed reading your article "The President's Weapon." It inspired me to write
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At this point, I don’t believe anything this government puts out… from the White House to the department of Interior. They are no longer reporting facts.
