Goodbye East Berlin

November 9, 1989. The images I never thought I’d see: People, lots of them, by and on top of the infamous Berlin Wall. Whole sections of it coming down. It was a miracle unfolding before our eyes.

Giving thanks — not just for one day of the year

Thanksgiving Day is a huge holiday in the US. But gratitude and saying “Thanks” isn’t limited to only that day.

The greatest threat: External or internal?

It’s far less likely that some foreign terrorist is going to come blow up my house or business than that I will do something myself to derail and mess it up.

The power line

It was a dark and stormy night. Thunderclaps aplenty. Then another, really loud noise. Much closer. That couldn’t be good!

Of pinpricks and a Milky Way

How often do you stop and look up at the sky at night? Quite possibly not that often. Because we tend to be in a hurry to get home. It’s dark. And there’s nothing to see up there anyway. Except there is …

Then I saw your face

The long distance train sped through miles of suburbs surrounding downtown. Greg was going back to the city to meet a woman he once knew. The last time blew up spectacularly. What would today be like when they meet again?

Everything was better before — and the more before the better

“The good old days.” “I miss the old days.” “Life was simpler then.”

We look/think/dream back a few decades and see a time in the rearview mirror when the world was in ever so much better shape.

It’s been good — time to end this

Scenario: You have a conference that is doing well.

Would you end it because this is year 5 and the plan was to only do it 5 times? Or keep going, because you can?

Day’s end

The long cattle drive had been like countless others. The trail comprised seemingly endless miles of sun scorched prairie. Days went by and the horizon was still only a line, without any signs of civilization.