It is painful to me to see how badly our government functions.   On every level of governance, from the White House to the local school board, self-aggrandizement. posturing, and mean-spiritedness dominate the “process,” contaminate it.

The dreams of my youth, dreams of a society characterized by cooperation, by a mutual recognition of each other’s needs, seem oh, so terribly far away.

We have revolutions of technology, but so little of the mind, the heart and the soul.  So little progress in how we treat each other, how much respect we have for the other’s feelings.