Christmas brings wonderment, and a sense of a future yet unfolded.  We practice gratitude, as therapy, sometimes fearfully, and occasionally, with quiet joy.  There is uncertainty all around us, and we crave certainty –  not the certainty of death and destruction – but rather the reliable and certain comfort of feeling blessed, in a blessed world. What we are seeing today doesn’t look very blessed.  The United States Congress that supposedly represents us under Constitutional guidelines, just voted to fund and grow the US war machine, to fund overseas destruction beyond anything we have seen since we were scorching the … Continue reading A (Necessarily Anti-State) Christmas Message