October 31, 1999 Rick Shaw, Chairman Communications Task Force SHUMC Dear Rick: Following the “Visioning Retreat” yesterday, a long-latent thought occurred to me that I felt I should pass along to the Communications Task Force. The original concept arose from personal experiences in my own pilgrimage where I felt in awe and privileged to witness…
As noted in “Hostage”/21, we may be being HELD HOSTAGE by all sorts of things hidden in the background thwarting our efforts and holding us back … … but it also helps to understand that we are likely being HELD BACK by some things that are actually “for our own good” … like by family,…
LIFE IS TOUGH! It is unfair, untidy, ignoble in many respects, competitive, full of disease and disaster and takes an extraordinary measure of coping and nobility simply to make a decent “GO” of it. Yet life has its high points. It is important to draw these high points out from the basic backdrop and undercurrent…
FACT: High intensity human behavior is unsustainable in “normal” circumstances … never mind “abnormal” circumstances! Acknowledging this fact, baseball games have “innings”. Football games have “Downs”. Boxing matches have “Rounds”. Basketball games have “Time Outs”, etc., and – except for boxing – there are ample opportunities for substitutions. And then there’s “Half-Times” and the…
Some days – OK, MOST days – things seem to be “out-of-whack” … off balance … it’s hard to “get a grip”: Weeds keep growing, potholes appear, concrete cracks, storms come and go, leadership and agendas keep changing, bankruptcies happen, deals fall through, demands keep soaring, time keeps getting away from us, etc. But, both…