Life Matters

In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Johnston explores our current culture’s fascination with news. But the word, ‘news’ is actually a reference to immediacy and not necessarily actual meaningful substance: that which is ‘new.’  The word, ‘ephemera’ comes to us from Greek and refers to something that is very briefly lived. Many ephemeral insects literally live their lives in the course of a day or two. They then become food for other insects or animals, most famously the flies eaten by many trout and other fish. Our cultural fascination with the news, or ephemeral data, can easily distract us from deeper, more enduring, more significant principles that should be guiding us and helping our understanding of life. Life Matters is dedicated to the latter - exploring and understanding the deep, abiding principles of life and the law, of what really matters regardless of the passing news stories. Election time is an exception to that. Elections are very narrow moments in time.  However the decisions that a