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A Place That Looks Death in the Face, and Keeps Living

March 1, 2025 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

This week I'm sharing a sobering but life-affirming message that I got this week from New Orleans.(Over the years, I’ve learned more from this City than from any other in America, so I’m always on the look-out for another one of its smoke … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: clear eyed perspective, climate change, death, disaster planning, ecology, environmental collapse, living with risk, Nathaniel Rich, New Orleans

Too Many Boys & Men Failing to Launch

February 19, 2025 By David Griesing 2 Comments

These days, it seems almost fool-hardy to flag another identity-based group—namely American boys & men—that needs our affirmative action.  Initiatives to help other disadvantaged groups are being purged in Washington these days, and if … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: 2024 US election, Arlie Hochschild, boys & men, failing to launch, HEAL jobs, masculinity, new role for fathers, Of Men and Boys, red-shirting, Richard Reeves, Richard V. Reeves, Strangers in Our Own Land, Tim Walz

We Can Do Better Than Survive the Next Four Years

January 24, 2025 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

With the second inauguration of Donald Trump, it feels like we're approaching the edge of uncertainty again. Unexpected surprises for friends and foes. Daily dramas that are impossible to ignore. Chaos that frustrates every … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: attention, boredom to entertainment cycle, Chris Hayes, colonization of attention, day dreaming, Jenny Odell, mind wandering, surviving Trump 2.0, third places, thriving during Trump, Trump attention grabbing, Trump cure for boredom

An Unnatural Calm Between One Storm and Another 

November 28, 2024 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Usually I enjoy the marathon of newsletter writing on Saturdays, but not this weekend. The clues came early. I’d sketched out a topic that seemed suitable to the day and time, but however much it coaxed me on I wasn’t feeling the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: a spike on one side buck, between one administration and another, betwixt and between, dramatic temperature changes, lack of rain, neither here nor there, out of balance, out of sync, out of time, transition, unnatural

Bro-Magnet Elon Musk is This Election’s October Surprise

October 29, 2024 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

In searching for hidden pokets of support that could change a dead-locked election, Trump Republicans are looking to “the bros.”   These are young men (white, black, Latino), who are under 40, ended their schooling in high school, have modest … [Continue reading]

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