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 you there.” -George Harrison, Any Road … Read more

Validation Pitfalls

After a couple of hours effort last night my archive templates now all validate as either XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1. That’s not to say all the content validates, however. The main … Read more

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, … Read more

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 The featured image (which may only be displayed on … Read more

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 featured image (which may only be displayed … Read more

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 The featured image (which may only be displayed on the … Read more

(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 did it ourselves.’” … Read more