[060517] “School”: Valores y Puntos de Vista [Values and Viewpoints]

(By request, a cross-post, from the main feed “over there”; Group Writing for June, 2017.  With appreciation and emendations…Enjoy!)

Greetings, fellow netizens of the good ship BDB! This episode came to mind recently as I read various posts and comments here and elsewhere detailing the sad state of civil society and the country at large. Conservatism/Classical Liberalism still holds up as a worldview; but the shared scaffolding holding it – and us – together is tottering. Mortar needs replaced at the foundation. What are the strongest ingredients? Let’s stroll down memory lane together, shall we?

Forty years ago this week, I had completed my junior year at the high school in my cocoon of a small town. My soon-to-finish years as an LHS Bulldog … Continue reading