The weekend before Thanksgiving, I went to visit my son on the college campus where he is about to graduate at the end of this academic year. As I sat in the student center waiting for him to wake up from an overnight “decorating the campus for Christmas” event, my thoughts drifted back to my …
Veterans Day today, was the perfect day for the reflective walk I took through the woods… It was the ideal Fall day where it sounds like rain, but the ground’s not wet. The sound was created by the magic of hundreds of trees accepting this season in life for what it is… A time to …
While so many in this country are finding new ways to fight and rehearse divisions, in our Converging Solutions world, I challenge readers to find the similarities in the freedoms we celebrate. Whether your family spends more time celebrating Juneteenth (June 19th), or US Independence Day (July 4th), or Latin American Independence Days (throughout September), …
Assessing ways that life in the United States continues to grow less “united” over the last few weeks, months, and years, one can easily identify tangible ways our society is experiencing more challenging polarization of thought than ever before. The political Left is quick to blame the Right, and the Right blames the Left just …
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I was recently reminded just how amazing and dedicated American small businesses are and what a privilege it is to lead a great one. Of course, as is often the case, it was a non-example that brought this to my attention. Not by a small business, but by a used-to-be small LMS company that has …
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This is a Black AND White issue… it’s also a Liberal AND Conservative issue. But it’s not a light AND darkness issue, nor a truth AND lie issue… Let’s choose TRUTH & LIGHT for 2021. (And it will take some free speech like MLK practiced to be able to achieve this.) Let’s protect our rights …
As one of the most challenging years of our collective lives has come to a close, for the first time many people are evaluating and re-evaluating things that they’ve never thought twice about. This provides a unique opportunity for both personal reflection and collective consciousness to coincide in a way that hasn’t happened in decades, …
