Recently, I’ve been within situations that have been difficult to maneuver individually, so I’ve looked outward for insights from my community. A smattering of good ideas were shared with me and I’d like to share thirty-five or forty of them here, so they can be appreciated as a group of focused thoughts by both you and me from time on from now. They are slightly abridged in a sense that I have abbreviated people’s names, adjusted the format from the…
I’m saddened to hear about the 5.9 scaled earthquake that has struck the Gansu state of China in the last 24 hours. It is an area that I have a great appreciation for, having visited twice. I don’t often travel such great distances multiple times, but after my first visit to Gansu, I had to go back for more…more mountains, history, massive carvings in cliffs, temples, monasteries, noodle shops (their capital, Lanzhou, is known throughout China by name, the way…