Author Archives: blglick
Ends and Means – What Our Tools Make of Us
As with so many topics these days, the terms of discussion of our anxious times have been ripped out of the hands of disciplined servants of language and employed with lower and lower fidelity to their original underlying concepts. It’s … Continue reading
Shepherds, Family, and Transcending the Darkness
So I do prattle on (mostly to myself) about being a missionary of in the dark world that social media has become. There are a lot of frightened people out there irrespective of red or blue, black or white, Christian, … Continue reading
The Lies Power Tells Those Who Wield It
First off, a caveat. This isn’t a bit about speaking truth to powerful people or catching out the evil intents of large organizations. Yeah, there are those kinds of lies flooding out from the powerful, but it’s kind of like shooting ducks … Continue reading
Peacemaking and Power
In my third act, I’ve dedicated myself to storytelling, pathfinding and peacemaking. Those who know me well know storytelling comes as natural as breathing to me. Over the years, my most rewarding work relationships have all involved some kind of pathfinding either … Continue reading
Loving the Earth
Like any love affair, loving the Earth, being kind to it, is hard work. This has been brought home to me over the last couple of months as the weather has warmed and various landscaping projects big and small have called. Two … Continue reading
A New Journey
I’m always struck how our artificial human constructions, a state line, a new year, reflect deeper, less explicit, but more persistent realities. Driving west on US Route 412, leaving Arkansas into Oklahoma, within the space of 20 or 30 miles, … Continue reading
I’m Back
Well now. I’m back. You may not have noticed my absence. In the last six months or so I’ve been mostly off Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and the like, unwilling to support their ever more apparent and pestilent dark side. … Continue reading
A Prayer of Thanks – 2017
Heavenly Father, we come before you on this day of thanksgiving with heavy hearts. We are grateful for the bounty of this table and company of those around it, but we are also full of longing for those who are … Continue reading
This Reality and Its Discontents
I believe in this reality of the world we see day to day, this world of work and play and rest, this world of offices and fields, of shining aspiration and shuddering loss, of space and of time. I believe … Continue reading
In the Company of the Dying
Like it or not, we are, all of us, always in the company of the dying because we’re all headed there sooner or later. If we’re fortunate, our lives fill up the space and time between us and death with … Continue reading
The Wondering Pathfinder 