“Because I said so!” My dear readers, I suspect each of us as children at some point received that cursory response to our favorite question: Why? That four-word conversation ender was especially trotted out when we pushed our parents to justify our having to engage in behavior whose ethical worth, while perfectly clear to them, totally detoured around our perceptions. To some extent such a response is a dismissive power play: the questioner is not accorded the requisite wo

Greetings! This is the first of what will be a series of blogs on the topic: a reverence for life. A reverence for life is the philosophy of love and compassion bequeathed us by the great humanitarian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer. It was his ethos, his philosophy of how we ought to live our lives. My hope and goal with these blogs is two-fold: First to introduce you to this philosophy; and Second, by fleshing it out and providing some examples and explanations, to convince you it i