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Peace

On Monday, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan (Singapore’s minister for foreign affairs) was interviewed by Reuters about the impact of the Iran war on Singapore and economics. Within that interview, he offered the following historical perspective framed around the concept of a “Pax Americana”: “For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation…

The River’s Edge

An Oracle of Ezekiel, with apologies to Clarence Jordan, and his Cotton Patch Gospels: Then I was compelled to stroll down the DuPage River Trail, and the Spirit took me to the river’s edge. It was littered with the bones of thousands upon thousands of the dead. Plants, trees, bushes, thorns, flowers, and all manner…

The Spirit in the Wind

Whatever might have been in my mind to write about today was blown away with the roaring wind. What is your experience of a windy day like today? Does it worry you? Energize you? Do you hunker down until it is past? Venture out to be buffeted about? Are you ambivalent about it? I doubt…