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It’s Time to Fix It in 2026

This is the year we decide whether repair remains possible — or whether we allow the damage to harden into our future.

The truth is no longer subtle: the cracks in our civic life have widened into fault lines, and the damage we once believed temporary now threatens to define us. We enter 2026 not with the luxury of denial, but with the responsibility of reckoning with the systems we allowed to decay, the courage we let slip from our public life, and the habits of division that have hardened into daily practice. This is the year we decide whether we will repair what’s broken or resign ourselves to living inside the ruins. read more

What Comes Next in Minneapolis and the USA?

Reform, Accountability, and the Civic Courage This Moment Demands

The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has already become a national flashpoint, not only because of the violence itself, but because of what it reveals about the fragility of truth when power feels threatened.

My own experience in Hancock County, Georgia, nearly thirty years ago, taught me that this fragility is not new. It is woven into the American legal fabric, appearing whenever authority senses a challenge and the system feels compelled to choose between accountability and self-protection. read more

Why The Cops Escalate?

The Psychology Behind Law Enforcement Force

The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and the memory of being slammed against a courthouse wall in Hancock County nearly thirty years ago are separated by time, geography, and circumstance. But beneath both events lie a deeper question, one that goes beyond law, beyond policy, beyond training: read more

The Law on Trial

What Minneapolis and Hancock County Reveal About Power, Process, and the Fragility of Justice

The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has already sparked national outrage, but beneath the emotional shock lies a more profound legal crisis — one that echoes across decades and reaches back to a courthouse wall in Hancock County, Georgia, where I once found myself slammed by officers whose authority I had dared to question. These two incidents, separated by nearly thirty years, illuminate the same structural fault line: what happens when law enforcement power collides with the legal process designed to restrain it. read more

When Power Feels Threatened

From Hancock County to Minneapolis

The killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has shaken the nation, not only because of the brutality captured on video, but because of the speed with which law enforcement and federal officials moved to justify it. Before her family could even process the loss, the narrative machine was already turning labeling her a threat, a terrorist, a danger to officers. read more

The Declaration of Independence

With a Few Minor Edits

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. read more

When Peace Meets Fear

The Quiet Tensions Along the Walk for Peace

For weeks, the Buddhist monks walking from Texas to Washington, D.C. have moved through the South like a soft wind — steady, humble, and unthreatening. Their message is simple: peace begins within. Their method is ancient: walk, breathe, bless, repeat. And their presence has drawn thousands into moments of unexpected unity. read more

Walking Toward the Heart of America

One Step at A Time, One Breath at A Time

There are moments in a nation’s life when the loudest voices are not the ones that carry the most profound truth. Sometimes the truth arrives quietly on sandaled feet, moving mile by mile along the shoulder of a highway, accompanied by a dog named Aloka and a caravan of ordinary people searching for something gentler than the world they’ve been handed. read more

A Year That Carried Me Forward

Reflections at the Threshold of 2026

Some years pass quietly, slipping into memory without much ceremony. And then some years arrive with a kind of insistence, years that ask something of you, shape you, and ultimately reveal who you’ve become in the long arc of your own story.

This was one of those years. read more

The President of the United States Is a Wretched Cur!

Trump’s Insults Toward Rob Reiner and Hardy’s Henchard

A few weeks ago, I penned a Substack piece in which I described the United States President as a “wretched cur!” It was a reference from a novel I was required to read as a high school senior, titled The Mayor of Casterbridge, written by Thomas Hardy, about a once very popular mayor, Michael Henchard, who had fallen out of office and was on hard times. He sold his wife at the town fair. This act is akin to a 21st-century American President burying his first wife on his golf course so he can receive a tax break on the golf course property. read more

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