A friend of mine asked me today, “Where is the outrage?” The question was not personal. I had passed along a story about the new ‘moral underground‘ that is arising in response to the continued economic stretching of ordinary Americans, who work so hard and yet are unable to afford even the basics.  My friend is originally…

It is well known that much of our public discourse is marked by contempt. I cannot say if it has always been so, but it does seem to be a more recent phenomenon, and a growing one. Sadly, it also seems to be true of much of what is written these days. It almost feels as though adopting a tone of contempt and scorn has become fashionable, the de rigeur way to make one’s point, whether on individual blogs, Facebook posts, Twitter, email, advertisements, in articles or even entire…

“I have no words.” This is a common refrain after a tragedy, and we’ve heard it again and again since Friday. We hear it from survivors, from responders, and from each other as we look at the images, ever more eerie and tragic, as they continue to come at us, wave after wave, through our screens.

“I have no words.” We watch. We sigh. Some of us pray. And we speak. But all we can say is one version or another of the same thing. “I have no words.” This is the paradox of human language:…

I just posted this at my site: www.innerwisdomexploration.com.

But I wanted to post a bit of it here, too. Because we all need to know that we DO make a difference, and that our words DO create ripples which we do not see.

Here you go:

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So, I just got a comment from my friend and colleague, Barbara Tarantino, on my post “…