understanding

Making A Case For Travelers

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It was August, 1974. I was standing on a bluff. Behind me was Accra, capital city of Ghana, one of sixteen countries forming Africa’s 4,000-mile western edge. Below and stretching outward to the horizon was the Atlantic Ocean.

Except the water wasn’t the expected blue. Instead, it was light brown. Not until about a mile out did the brown end and the blue begin.

Suddenly, logic was giving me mixed signals. As a tourist, my thinking was that surely the ugly, disgusting, and repulsive brown wasn’t what I thought it could be. As a traveler, I was hoping that wasn’t … Read the rest “Making A Case For Travelers”

Listening Your Way To Greatness

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Being one of the senses, hearing is simply assumed. We never give it another thought because we have never had to. 

It’s also automatic. In your conscious moments you are either speaking or you are listening. End of story. Except it isn’t. Consider these four examples of the subject at hand.

You are tent camping in the desert and mountain area of the American West or deep in a remote forest in the American East. You have every reason to say this is about as quiet as it can get, but you find out it isn’t. 

You hear the hooting … Read the rest “Listening Your Way To Greatness”

No, You Aren’t Alone

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Most authors of columns such as this probably think of themselves as being merchants of knowledge — educating, informing, urging, enlightening, and in some cases, even offering support.

Aside from serving intellectual or uplifting mental food to the masses, however, they are prompted to keep it more personal, recognizing or describing small particles rather than chunks of this event we call life. 

At first, my only reason for creating the website was to inform people of my first book. Soon afterward, however, I recognized it as a chance to share with others much of what I’ve learned over the years as … Read the rest “No, You Aren’t Alone”