Blog - Craig Lounsbrough

Being Thankful – Attitudes that Enliven

It seems that Thanksgiving; at least the meaning of it all is being lost somewhere. In many respects we’ve traded it wholesale for football, turkey, an insane variety of foodstuffs and an excuse for a four day weekend. In a lot of ways it’s become more the starting gun to Christmas; a brief celebration with a built-in justification to gorge … [Read more...]

Playing with the Fire – Thinking we’re That Good

At times we tend to like to “dance with the devil,” “push the envelope,” and “play with fire.” At some level we’re all dare-devils. There comes those moments, either frequent or infrequent when we become a bit bored with the everyday stuff of everyday life. And in those moments we want to shake it up and spice it up. There’s an utterly profound … [Read more...]

Bobbing and Weaving

We all dance. Every one of us diligently works to side-step those things that we find less than palatable or downright ugly. We cleverly work to circumvent, defuse and detour around all of the many things that we find unsavory and therefore prefer not to deal with. In essence, we bob and weave and we tend to do a lot of it. Certain times … [Read more...]

Bobbing and Weaving – The Dance of Justification

We’re not all too bad at bobbing and weaving. We’re pretty good at side-stepping and side-lining issues. We’re quite adept at cutting and spinning, doing a bit of fanciful dodging, as well as deftly running the obstacle course without getting so much as a scratch on us. We’ve learned to see things coming from a long ways away, and we’ve figured … [Read more...]

The Worst Slavery – Slavery to Ignorance

Slavery as an institution is pretty far removed from the minds of most of us residing here in 21st century America. Slavery sits back plenty far enough in the faded, yellowed and brittle pages of history to create a more than comfortable chasm between us and itself. We view that chasm of time and social development and modernism as broad enough … [Read more...]

The Perfect Storm – When Life Hits All At Once

Wikipedia states that a perfect storm “refers to the simultaneous occurrence of weather events which, taken individually, would be far less powerful than the storm resulting of their chance combination. Such occurrences are rare by their very nature, so that even a slight change in any one event contributing to the perfect storm would lessen its … [Read more...]

We Reap What We Sow – Changing the Seeds

We reap what we sow. In other words, what we do is never free of an outcome that will be shaped by what we do. The ‘cause-and-effect’ of life is such that what we do will always cause an outcome that is fashioned directly by what we do. Despite the fact that we often think (or would prefer to think) that what we do is somehow isolated to the … [Read more...]

Do We Search for Truth – Or For Ways Around It?

Do we search for the truth, or do we search for ways around the truth? Do we even take the time to consider a question like that out of the long-held assumption that we are, in fact, looking for the truth because (we assume) that that’s the obvious thing to do? What insanity would behoove us to do anything less? But do we search for the truth, … [Read more...]

The Uniform of a Warrior – Dressed for Sacrifice

What is a warrior? Who are these combatants who take up arms in whatever way that they take them up? The shared sense is that a warrior is someone who engages in battle. That’s quite different from a terrorist who holds that the perceived virtue of the cause justifies the slaughter of the innocent, or someone who runs hard with psychopathic … [Read more...]

Heralding True Heroes – A Tribute to 911

History has pivoted on ordinary people who when faced with extraordinary circumstances drew on some deeply submerged essence of their humanity and were, in those most harrowing of moments, transformed into extraordinary people. There are those who held themselves of no accord who stood in harm’s way or entered the dangers of the fray and turned … [Read more...]