When you’re tired of racism.

A look at Gail Tsukiyama’s “The Samurai’s Garden” and the impact Japanese culture had on some characters and their decision to commit suicide.

What do you treasure? The condition of your heart will determine the outcome of your life.

Ask not what your country can do to you……?

Can people ever truly forgive another person? Is forgiveness a human quality or an act of grace?

Let’s not sacrifice indulgence for compassion – we can have both.

Survivors of stranger rapes think something about them caused the rapes. In this story, a man convicted of several stranger rapes explains that rape is not personal. He would not recognize his victims if they walked into the room. Women blame themselves for rape, but this story shows that sex offenders know who causes rapes. It is not survivors.

In our inner universe, there are four alarm systems, that if well used are blessed items.

Striving to make being human a pride rather than a shame.

When children are sexually abused, they think the abuse is their fault. In their own words, children say what sexual abuse means to them. It’s time to pay attention to what they say. Otherwise, child sexual abuse will go on and on.