My view from the pew: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor Roosevelt said ” “It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” A few years ago when the kids wereContinue reading “A Little Light Goes A Long Way”
Author Archives: Bosco O'Brian
What? Another Powerful Man Accused of Sexual Harassment?
Wow… “I’m shocked!” Really? Are any of my Opera, Opera Theatre, Musical Theatre or Theatre friends surprised and shocked by this? So, Plácido Domingo, certainly one of the single greatest and most powerful stars in opera, accused of decades of sexual harassment… I mean really? Now don’t get me wrong… I am in no wayContinue reading “What? Another Powerful Man Accused of Sexual Harassment?”
A midsummer night’s dream…
Most midsummer night’s evening I sit quietly with an adult beverage watching each moment of light fade to dark and think of my brother, Tony Fabio with whom I spent so many such nights as a younger man. We’d watch and drink and laugh till the last light of the longest day was faded onContinue reading “A midsummer night’s dream…”
Rare Indeed…
True friendship is not accidental. Rarer than true love, it looks past a smile to the pain in your eyes and says… “I see you.”
Est Unitatis Fortitudinem!
“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman…” ~ Thomas Paine Sister, brothers, friends, fellow progressives and conservatives alike…fellow Americans… Putin doesContinue reading “Est Unitatis Fortitudinem!”
E Pluribus Unum
There is no longer an “average American.” There are only individuals… People of many disparate and varied backgrounds, ethnicities, Faith’s, races, genders, etc… And because we all too often allow these lines to be the lines along which the discourse is formed, they become dividing lines, if not battle lines. Like it or not, ourContinue reading “E Pluribus Unum”
No More Labels
There are three groups (at least) that really should be identified when considering the whole misogyny, predatory, superior male behavior confluence… There are those who have rarely, if ever, behaved inappropriately. Perhaps rare, but nonetheless, they exist and we dare not mistakenly lump them into the broader pool of our collective anger. The second groupContinue reading “No More Labels”
It’s all history; the good, the bad and the very ugly
Here’s a thought…At the risk of angering everyone, how about we keep all the historical statues… Yeah. That’s right. Destroying them won’t change the reason they exist; which, by the way, is where this discussion must inevitably go. So, take them out of the public places where they pay homage to some wrong minded once-upon-a-timeContinue reading “It’s all history; the good, the bad and the very ugly”
What you value, you measure
As a 2009 Cato Institute report put it, “Although Afghanistan has endured successive waves of Persian, Greek, Arab, Turk, Mongol, British, and Soviet invaders, no occupying power has ever successfully conquered it.” That is why it is called The Graveyard of Empires. It’s worth noting how much the longest U.S. war in the country’s historyContinue reading “What you value, you measure”
Prayer…
In a conversation with a very good buddy yesterday, he offered this; “prayer doesn’t change God, but it surely changes us.” I found that transformational. I can’t say with any certainty exactly what prayer does, but I know it is essential. Maybe all it does is show Him that we are faithful believers along theContinue reading “Prayer…”
Why Eye Write 