Mike at work

Traveling Light

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Seneca

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take

Playful Elk, RMNP

Don’t Argue

“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you
won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as
she bids you,

Smoky Hill River in Winter

On Giving Advice

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Optimism

” I have great faith in optimism as a philosophy, if only because it offers us the opportunity of self-fulfilling prophecy.” -Sir Arthur C Clarke

The Test of Memory

“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.” -Georges Duhamel, The Heart’s Domain

(More) On Leadership

“The wicked leader is one who the people despise. The good leader is one who the people revere. The great leader is the one of whom the people say, ‘We