Katherine Phelps

Every nation divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. In the mansion of humanity there are three floors. On the top floor live the matriarch and the patriarch of the controlling family. On the middle floor are all the children and grand-children. On the […]

Okay, people! It’s time to sharpen your pencils (or charge up your laptops). Now is the time to think big and make out your wish list. We all need to be ready for the next couple of Federal elections. Our democracy is seriously broken. Some of it was broken from the beginning. Some of it […]

So, we have people who want to convert you to their way of thinking. This could be for reasons: Sometimes to make the world a better place, Sometimes to validate those people’s sense of self. “Hey! I have great ideas! You should agree with me, so that I can feel secure that I have great […]

I have spent much of my adult life trying to get people activated. It can be hard and discouraging at times. People don’t want their lives ruffled. They don’t want to self reflect and find themselves feeling guilty. They are scared of the consequences of stepping outside of the norm. I promise you, if you […]

We are not fighting men. We are dismantling patriarchy, Most especially white patriarchy. Even women can be part of the patriarchy. But we must remember that men are the ultimate beneficiaries of this system. And consciously or unconsciously, many will act to defend their privilege. We must practice self awareness. We must consciously choose kindness, […]

“I’m just beside myself with sadness because our president is a bully, our president is a punk, and he just doesn’t get it. I don’t know where he was raised but his family didn’t do a good job raising that guy.” ~Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney 2017 A scenario A bully knocks a child over on […]

According to the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock we are 2 minutes from midnight. Two minutes from global nuclear disaster. The last time we were that close to disaster was 1953. Thousands of mental health professionals have petitioned that Donald Trump be removed from office because he has serious mental pathologies. It is completely within his […]

We have been watching far too many distopian fictions. Distopias are meant to be warnings. If things go on as they are, they caution, the consequences will be dire. This is what stories like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale are all about. They are meant to spur people on to make change. We as a […]

The 2018-2019 Australian Federal budget does not include any new cuts to the arts council funding, though that damage was done in 2015 when A$105 million dollars was removed from the already small arts granting budget and the remaining budget was earmarked primarily for artistic institutions like the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Now on a “tight” […]

Preamble We live in a complex world. We are all learning all the time. Maturity and wisdom are spread across the human population in a lumpy fashion. The children of a loving, respectful, and broadly caring family may be more mature than a much older person who grew up amidst familial or national dysfunction. Sometimes […]