Author Archives: pcostello

MIND The Buddhists call it Beginners Mind-that one enters into every encounter with the assumption that there is something on offer here, something new to learn. David Brooks likes to call it ‘epistemic humility,’ meaning of all the things that … Continue reading →

The old idea of stories that we learn as kids is like a golden age of reverie. We grew up to indulge the imagination with stories, fairy tales, a fantasy world where dogs and cats could talk and elephants could … Continue reading →

Our  Storywise work has always included what most leave out. What we term  NARRATIVE ETHICS.  It indicates that we take responsibility for the fact that in teaching stories,  we are teaching people how to use a weapon. It can be … Continue reading →

WHAT’s THE STORY? Five GOP local members in Texas are tweeting that George Floyd’s death was a set up funded by George Soros and staged to attack Trump. The murder never happened. What a story? Believe it and what does … Continue reading →

The lady was called Kitty Genovese and she was first the Victim and then, became the case study of what came to be called the  “ByStander affect.” While being stabbed to death on a New York street, people saw what … Continue reading →

Covid19 is killing people. To stop it spreading, we need quarantine and shutdown. Shutdown and quarantine are slowing infection and saving people. Step One is working. Shutdown and quarantince are killing the economy. Unemployment is never so high, Growth is … Continue reading →

Heath of the Nation’s Citizens or Health of the Nation’s Economy? There is the bet. Throw the dice and bet on lockdown forever till we have comprehensive testing, tracking, sufficient masks and usage, and enough ICU beds.   Good Luck. That … Continue reading →

Buy up your Tea folks, because King George the 3rd may intervene with extra taxes on these here, his Trumpian colonies, and then there may well be a movement for independence to overthrow this tyrant because he is only Biden … Continue reading →

  If you are flying to london or having a heart transplant, do you care if the pilot or doctor is morally depraved? You want a competent pilot and a competent surgeon. Sometimes people who are corrupt cut corners to … Continue reading →

ONE NATION DIVIDED UNDER GOD Read the NYT times section from last weekend “The America We Need”-and realize that whatever the Virtus means in the end, right now it is revealing how abusive the “normal” was for people of color, … Continue reading →