Philosophers have asked the question, “What is a life worth?” for ages and we still don’t have an answer.  The value of a life as set by the US medical insurance field is $50,000 per year.  According to Standford Graduate School of Business, a year of life is worth $129,000.  Or if you prefer the…

We forget that we are resilient.  We, humanity, are a resilient species.  We’ve adapted to a world full of climates and thrived in every one of them.  We’ve weathered ice ages and warm periods, we’ve turned our rival predators extinct and eaten their flesh. We forget that everyone is powerful.  When we decide someone is…

My Facebook feed is filled with images of destruction.  Tin roofs ripped apart and crumbled like yesterday’s tinfoil, cinder blocks in jagged piles where walls once stood, corner posts as big around as tree trunks standing among the wreckage of what used to be the walls of the houses they anchored.  Each photo makes my…