Last week, my blog was about finding our better angels in the worst of times, a term Abraham Lincoln coined in his first inaugural address.   I am familiar with my darker ones, anger, impatience, and vanity among them.  Less aggressive are the purer spirits. Sometimes, when I’ve

The saying has been around for a long time:  “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.”  A number of people seem to be angry on Facebook, lately. A group of women dumped on Ivanka Trump the other day for defending her father when she was Angela Merkel’s guest at t

Someone on my Facebook page shared a quote by Leo Tolstoy that got my brain churning: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. I agree with Tolstoy’s observation. Change begins when individuals look within themselves. (My blog: 7/26/ 12) Blaming