I looked at the calendar August 15, blinked twice, and realized that ten days ago we were in heavy traffic through San Antonio and Dallas, headed north toward Lake Tenkiller in northeast Oklahoma. The reason for that part of this trip was to retrieve our Leisure Travel Van RV that was stored at wife’s brother’s
Seven Decades: A Learning Memoir was published in 2013. It was a record of several watershed learning experiences in each of 7 decades that shaped and influenced me over those years. What follows here is a brief summary of the past decade in a similar way and raising up a few experiences and what I
All of us meet situations in our lives that are formidable challenges looming large and require us to decide how we are going to move forward. These experiences come in many forms – in a personal relationship at home or at work; a threatening illness or disease; the unexpected loss of a loved one; raising
As a noun, DESIGN has two meanings: either a plan, aim, intention, goal, or purpose; or a concept, drawing, shape, sketch, or blueprint – even the entire finished product. As a verb, it also has two meanings; either to scheme, plan, devise, or intend; or to invent, create, fabricate, or BUILD. We can get
Three stages or phases as a way of being and doing and growing. First, exploring and discovering what we care about most and why…. Passion Second, putting that passion into intentional design and actions, what some might call a value proposition as it includes vision, mission and values…Purpose 1 – Who are
Our kitchen floor at the 2-story house on Wayne Avenue was a shining reflection of cleanliness. My mother held cleanliness next to godliness in her list of values. When she visited us in later years she would voluntarily started cleaning out the refrigerator. She would bring a green specimen of something growing on the back
