BRIGHT PASSAGE

Nowhere else in the world is the simple act of going to school so fraught with danger as it is here right here in the gun-crazed United States. We lead the world in mass shootings. I have school-aged grandkids. I live in fear of what might happen to them, what might happen to any kid in school. God damnit, we should not have to be afraid that our children will be murdered in their classrooms. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The brutal fact is that politicians thrive when there is hatred and fear of "the other" -- whether "the other" has dark skin, or speaks a foreign language, or has a particular sexual identity, or has been involved in the criminal legal system, and on and on and on. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

. . . I am just slightly surprised that I was unaware of the fine sci-fi radio series X Minus One and its predecessor, Dimension X, until about 10 years ago. This situation is probably due to the fact in the heyday of 1950s and 1960s television, I just did niot take radio very seriously. I was aware of radio drama -- Have Gun Will Travel, The Whistler, The Shadow and the ilk. But I was not aware of X Minus One or Dimension X until I heard a promo for them on my car's Sirius satellite radio. What a happy discovery! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I've heard some folks who aren't playing with full decks say that Ukraine is corrupt. Guess what? That does not give Russia or any other nation the right to invade and slaughter the civilian population. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

That the Vietnam War was immoral has become a nearly universally accepted view. There is a potent argument that any war is immoral. Which is why I surprised myself when I began thinking that I would like to see something like the Gulf of Tonkin incident give President Biden the authority to intervene militarily on behalf of the innocent residents of Ukraine who are being butchered on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's nice when things go your way. But things don't always go my way. Oh, sure, I'll get angry. Maybe I'll pout, or weep, or curse. I'm human. I do those things, just like you do. But I also know that type of reaction is a colossal waste of time and energy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I feel a kinship with the friends who love and spend time with poetry and music, and who love to talk about poetry and music. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Two movies from Christmas Day 2021. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When there is a Division I national championship event being held just down the street from where you live, you go. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Change is here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

If I choose not to pick a fight with it, despair gets bored and goes home. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The universe is nothing but change. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

She has captured my heart. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

She is forever of the 1960s and thank god we have the recordings. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why did we allow Derek Chauvin to harm as many people as he did? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

If the White sons of White members of the U.S. Congress were being exterminated in this way, you can bet there would be national action. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I'll never ever again think of or visit Springbrook State Park without thinking about what I can do to help make things around me better. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There are no words to describe the sense of peace. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Kong and Godzilla are great forces of nature, not unlike Faulkner's Bear or Melville's Moby Dick. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How might you seek the light today? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I was a paint-smeared and smiling 5-year-old who incurred his dad's wrath. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Don't forget it. Don't be unhappy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What does it take to change hearts? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

'That last guy -- the AP guy -- he was pretty good.' --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It doesn't matter who around me does not buy into this approach. It is my approach. It is my moonshot. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

White men have our nation's racist attitudes so deeply embedded that they don't even know it when they're saying something so hurtful, something so obviously stupid. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

More than anything else, I need just to be left alone. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As the first anniversary of this blog draws near, that time of Bright Passage also feels near. Not yet attained -- but near. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Closer to the light? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I approach this vaccination with some awe and reverence. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Like all of you, I am looking desperately for the light, for the signpost up ahead, pointing the way to the Bright Passage. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

No matter how cold it gets, it's a good idea to get outside at least once a day. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I am my father's son. I am forgiven. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It was epic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

That was my job. Shuffling and sorting brick. All day long. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The beginning of the pandemic is all tied up with basketball for me. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We're surrounded by frauds and scammers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Justice and accountability are the necessary requisites to healing and unity. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

'The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.' --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A little diligence, consultation with other team members, collaboration with my colleagues before hitting 'send' is a good investment of time. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I am studying the notion of post-traumatic growth. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We have cohabited with hatred. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

. . . and 'twas - the Grape! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I went skinny-dipping in the lake on January 1. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The pandemic of 2020 did all of us a favor: It shined the bright light of truth and accountability on politicians, and we have found that most of them failed us and will continue to fail us. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I will not forget Christmas 2020. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I honestly don't think I ever completely lost my faith in your spirit of generosity, your kindness and your gentle good cheer. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There are times, in fact, when my future looks kind of cool and inviting. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One of the most courageous people I know. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app