I’VE BEEN THINKING…
by Rick Thyne
I've been thinking about being stripped naked.
and about the secrets we keep, and those we tell.
I've been thinking about doing something for no good reason at all.
Just for the pleasure of it.
I've been thinking about character.
We’ve carried on this playful debate for decades. My wife thinks generosity is the most important virtue; I think courage is.
I've been thinking about God and evolution (although not in the ways you might suspect).
I believe deeply in God. At the same time, midway through the first year of my ninth decade, I know with certainty almost nothing at all about God.
I've been thinking about my relationship to anger.
Who gave you permission to speak to anyone, especially to someone you love, with that kind of cruelty?
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Hi, I’m Rick Thyne and I’m grateful that you found your way to these pages. I’ve published two books in the past decade and along the way I’ve discovered that I really love to write. In the news and in so many conversations, I find issues I care about; so I’ve decided to write brief columns about these issues and to share them with you. I hope you’ll write back with your own thoughts and questions. Perhaps in this conversation we’ll find our way to more of the common good that is for me our best hope for a future in which all of us thrive. Thank you again for sharing in these conversations.