Dear Friends, Unremarkable....a plainly dressed little girl clearly focused on the parade. It didn't matter that no one but her parents on the crowded streets...
Chosen
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Wynn Lembright
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Dear Friends, Do you remember the Student Safety Patrols in elementary school? If chosen to be a student patrolman, you were outfitted with a belt that had a...
Unselfing Wonder
Dear Friends, The Harvard Business Review, August 2021 carried an article "Why You Need to Protect Your Sense of Wonder". One experimental group, when asked...
Enduring Stability
Dear Friends, Stability…as in steady, strong, solid. The Empire State Building? The Rock of Gibraltar? Dover Dam? The triangle? Family units, stock market,...
Mountains Leveled
Dear Friends, On May 29, 1953, 70 years ago, the cover of 'Life Magazine' featured Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay standing on the summit of Mt Everest, the...
This Day, That Day
Dear Friends, This and that. These and those. Parts of the English vocabulary that can make all the difference in our lives. "This road is open." "You can...
Invincibility Centers
Dear Friends, Against overwhelming odds, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has rallied the Ukrainian people and their military in courageous resistance...
Heavy Lifting
Dear Friends, Heavy lifting is the cause of over one million workplace injuries each year – and that number likely triples if non-workplace injuries are...
Weaponized Mercy
Dear Friends, The U.S. military, when contending for peace during the Cold War, introduced the term "weaponize" to describe equipping rockets with nuclear...
Sukhumvit Home
Dear Friends, Bangkok, Thailand is where our 'kids' live. It's a mega city of 10 million people. To visitors it's an unfamiliar culture, unfamiliar language,...