Tag: mental health

  • Making the Case for Forgiveness

    I used to think of myself as a primarily “good” person. Never mind that the distinct moral poles of “good” and “bad” or even good and “evil” do not leave much room for the amazing amount of ambiguity or even neutrality that we encounter in our daily lives. It is easy to make judgments about…

  • The Angry Year

    It was the year of our LORD, 2020. We didn’t have a vaccine for COVID-19. The Democratic primaries were happening. George Floyd had just been murdered by Derek Chauvin. Most of us were in quarantine or were “essential workers” praised for fighting on the frontlines. I was angry, all the time. I wrote angry, impassioned…