Value List

Intimacy: Related to truth telling. Honesty, forthright, straight-shooting, and blunt. The simple choice to respect people, allow them freedom, and refuse to hide in cowardice and shame.  Isolation: Related to lying. Ambiguity, hypocrisy, facades, and hiding. The complex games of manipulation, power, and pride. Usually used to force capitulation, insulate hidden agendas, and seduce people as ideological…

Epic: the dramatic story of heroes who conquer idealistic goals through great risk, tenacious idealism, and stalwart character; the stuff of myths, legends, and history lived by people who rise above circumstances and leave the world forever changed.  Mundane: the pathetic silence of cowards who capitulate to mediocrity through great apathy, passive entrenchment, and mindless compliance…