Author Archives: pcostello

  COVID and the sands of time HOW LONG? The question that arose for us in March 2020 when the schools first shut down, and our AmeriCorps service year was interrupted was- How Long?Most people were thinking- perhaps wishing- this is … Continue reading →

“Power always distorts the lens of perception” Senator Mitch McConnell did not say today, in a Press conference that did not happen. (But it was a good point all the same.) When not asked to elaborate on what he did … Continue reading →

Here’s the deal- in AA circles, they talk of Rock Bottom, when an addict realizes that his life is so broken, he or she feels so helpless that they have to admit they are powerless. That is when the only … Continue reading →

I wonder if our dilemma is the choice between someone who acts effective and decisive and ruthless and is the exact opposite in a disastrous way..bankrupt and inept and deep shit in debt but tycoon star of The Apprentice…where he … Continue reading →

 AND STERILIZED AND QUARANTINED AND VENTILATED-DR FAUCI TO BE THE NEW DEBATE MODERATOR AND CHRIS WALLACE WILL CONTROL THE OXYGEN FLOW What a way to modify the debate format- after the President made a joke of VP Biden wearing the … Continue reading →

If your son or partner went out in the rain and you warned “you will get a cold-come inside now” and he says ” i can never get a cold, you have no clue,” and doesn’t and he ends up … Continue reading →

“Debate’ comes from the same word in English as “Batter” and that is what might be in store for us tonight. The candidates will duke it out in prime time. It has become the routine spectacle that we insist candidates … Continue reading →

We blame Constantine. He converted to Christianity and with it, his whole Empire. That is where the rot set in. Embracing a faith built on the memory of a Messiah the Empire had executed  300 years earlier was an irony … Continue reading →

Frodo from Lord of the Rings was it? who asked :”I wonder what sort of a tale we have fallen into?” Well, I ask that when I read the “Washington Post” every morning- in the old fashioned way, page by … Continue reading →

Here are a few summary points from today’s lesson on our theory of change.  1- We measure our impact and results based on the story we generate, create, inspire, to be remembered and celebrated, retold and added to – it is not … Continue reading →