ABOUT ME

Family & Work
 

A husband to a wonderful wife and father to three amazing children.  I am a former intelligence officer with substantial experience at the national and defense level of government supporting overseas operations with roughly 18 years experience performing strategic analysis in the Middle East and East Asia. Presently, I’m an attorney working in DC in support of complex, large-scale litigation / investigations for Fortune 500 clients in the health care and pharmaceutical industries.

Why a blog?
 

This blog, which contains ideas going back to 2014, is about an intense battle in search for greater integrity.  My thought and action life were confounded at a rudimentary level.  I had been learning Truth (i.e., His prescriptive will), but I did not walk in it.  As J. Budziszewski explains in The Revenge of the Conscience, I was pretending to deny a truth we cannot not know.  While this is a confusing concept to the modern relativist (i.e., those whom deny the existence of an absolute Truth of right and wrong and espouse situation ethics), we all can appreciate this struggle in a familiar proper analogy.  That is, the familiar better angel scenario, in which an angel and devil sit adjacent atop the opposing shoulders of a man arrested at an ethical crossroad—each representing the warring voices of vice and virtue—each whispering into his ear what the man ought to do, best illustrates this internal conflict.  The better angel is a personification of the conscious instructing the man to line up his behavior with a commonly held Truth – to follow a reasonable standard of propriety.  For example, he says, “do not sleep with your bosses’ spouse.” The devil, a fallen angel, is the antagonist creating temptations as he advises the man truth is nothing more than a preference and to give in to his natural inclinations. “This will be good for the two of you,” he says and “one time cannot hurt.” Integrity is to proverbially listen to the better angel regularly.  But knowing how to listen and to attain this ability to listen have been the central battle.