The small notice on the bulletin board described an opportunity for a summer in Alaska. The successful applicant would direct a summer recreation program for kids in the small community of Skagway, at the northern terminus of the inland passage. That passage is a stretch of protected ocean approx. 1,500 km long, that runs from Those of you who read my blog regularly will recognize much of this as I’ve shared many of these thoughts and experiences previously here. And I summarized my first 70 years in the 2013 publication, “Seven Decades: A Learning Memoir.” Starting my 85th year and able to function physically, mentally, emotionally and socially at reasonable Contrasts and Comparisons Being planted in one place to absorb the surroundings versus traveling to get to another place – day and night. While being on the road is a very different experience from parked or camped in one spot, we find ways to make the motion forward at 70 mph engaging. These include listening On the road again, having departed home in Tubac, AZ, Wednesday, June 2, and 4 days and 1,100 miles later we’re south of Jackson, Wyoming on the Snake River. We are traveling via our Leisure Travel Van RV, camping with amenities, as we say. Those of you who know the open spaces of the West Putting something together when you have the right tools and skills but can’t see what you’re doing is a challenge. While I was finishing a job one mornng recently, I started thinking. “ Whoa, you can stop right there,” I told myself. “If you start thinking about something such as the implications of the job With gratitude to Peter Senge, who talks often about decentralizing the role of leadership in order to enhance the capacity of all people to work toward healthier human systems, I offer these observations, insights and experiences. As leaders, we are acutely aware of trying to meet the needs of multiple constituencies – directors, associates, colleagues, How often do you get a notice that a piece of software or an application needs to be “updated” and “downloaded” to be sure that you have the latest and greatest whatever? It seems to me that it’s a weekly task like filling the gas tank or going to the grocery. It cleans up the Or is it time to travel? I prefer the double entendre of it’s time to travel and having the time to travel, both of which are true for us. We love to travel as anyone who knows us, knows well. Our first trip together, some 25 years ago, was to Canyon de Chelly in AZ, The mythical story of Psyche, Amor and Venus has to do with love lost and found, the joy and suffering along the way, hard work and humiliation, as well as the comfort, support and assistance of others. It is easy to recognize in this story of Psyche the human soul, which is purified by passions 
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