Op-Ed: Where Does Indifference to Life Begin?

Where does indifference to life begin?

What does mowing the lawn have to do with world events?

From the editor: Like a lush garden, we can thrive

I, by no means, am any kind of gardener. In fact (keep your giggles to yourself, please and thanks), I mowed a lawn for the first time in my life earlier this month. To be fair, I’m allergic to (everything in the universe, no joke) cut grass, which is also an asthma trigger for me. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a staff of pals, and mainly my poor mother, to help me mow. This year, I decided to take charge. Well, I had to. My mommy was in a …

Op-Ed: Where Does Indifference to Life Begin?

By Robert C. Koehler What does mowing the lawn have to do with world events? Well, one of my life skills is the ability to make minimal and possibly absurd connections, linking the trivial and the profound. Thus, a few years back (when I still mowed my own lawn), I wrote this poem. It’s called “Buddha’s Lawn”: I mow the lawn and feel gratitude  my neighbors  haven’t pigeonholed me as a crazy old coot.  I’m stalled in my transition  from a lifest…

How Can We Resist the Indifference to life?

Mowing the lawn makes the author wonder if indifference to weeds and litter breeds the larger dismissal of life that enables war like the one in Gaza.

Where Does Indifference to Life Begin?

As Christianity became a world religion, its cross got turned upside down and became a sword.

In the name of “the transformation” or “Make America Great Again” the charismatic populist leaders leave in their wake hurricane damage, sudden and deep, that require generations to reverse them.One of the most serious is social polarization, because, in the search for miracles that solve their problems, many citizens give themselves with devotion to those leaders without being able to understand the consequences.The first thing those leaders wa…