Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell
Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans. – Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, “Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer,” 2003 September 25th