Kindness
The Dalai Lama says, “My religion is kindness.”
It’s easy to forget that people who are treated kindly tend to treat others in a similar fashion, and that the way we treat others has an effect that ripples through hundreds of others.
It’s hard to imagine a sustainable civilization that doesn’t have some level of compassion for others at its core. This may be the precise problem we face in the world right now, with our insatiable appetite for war, our thirst for the cruel treatment of immigrants, and our indifference to others’ suffering more generally.
With everything we’re reading about the impeachment trial, there doesn’t seem to be a resolution on the fact that top Republicans have sworn to be both impartial and not impartial, i.e., totally committed to acquitting the defendant before the trial begins and the evidence introduced.
Germany continues to impress the world with its bold adventures into sustainable energy and transportation. Their decision to get rid of both coal and nuclear means lots of natural gas, and a huge commitment to renewable energy, which, given the variable nature of solar and wind makes it hard to integrate into the grid mix at extremely larger percentages.
For the last few years, American public school children had been the beneficiaries of Michelle Obama’s effort to include more fruits and vegetables in the lunch menus, replacing things like pizza, hamburgers and french fries. Predictably, that came to a stop yesterday, the former first lady’s birthday, when the 
Given that 2019 was the second-hottest year since temperature records were first taken in 1880, we have the fact that each of the past six years were among the six hottest out of 140. Of course, we still have people on social media saying that all this is a coincidence; one such fool asserts, “This is precisely what should be expected, given that records have only been kept for a nanosecond of Earth’s 4.5 billion year history. 
Sure wish I had a dollar for every time my wife has expressed these precise words. It’s a thought that she and Barbara Bush share with the majority of American women, not to mention the vast majority of women around the globe.
Take a moment and look in this guy’s eyes. Not exactly what one would call kind-looking, are they? Meet 27-year-old Patrik Jordan Matthews, active member of global neo-Nazi terrorist group The Base, arrested on various charges associated with automatic weaponry in advance of the gun rally at North Carolina’s Capitol Building.
Many Americans report feeling like they’re on a merry-go-round, today wondering how something so odd and terrible could be possible, tomorrow learning why, but the following day scratching their heads again. 
