Since they flourish in the abstract, ironically, the best parts of man remain the hardest ones to fathom, the easiest to devalue and the likeliest to neglect. Frightful depths of thought or feeling alone may awaken them, assimilate them, avert the devastation which exploits their slumber .
♣ While they tend to grow elusive or ethereal, confused or confounded, as long as thought and feeling persist, these fundamental qualities, faith, hope, love, charity, grace, truth, beauty, valor and excellence, the elements of human spirituality, will always be valid, always relevant, always healthy, stirring, heartening, always right, just and good and there will always be the hope that man may extricate himself from the mercenary jaws of destruction yet one more time.

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

A Whimsical Glance at Good and Evil

The Frightening Ambiguity of Etiquette 
Why have burps been ruled offensive, sneezes full of charm?                                Are sneezes stuffed with jollity and burps imbued with harm?                              Burps are often quieted, sneezes loudly blessed?                                                          Are sneezes born of angels and burps of all the rest?                                         What is in a burp that’s any worse than in a sneeze?                                                    For what could auger any worse than snot upon the breeze?

–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com

COMING SOON TO A WINCING GLARE  BY POPULAR DEMAND–“What Price Justice Part 2: Corporate Lobbying of Congress”