Crooked Spin and

In a moment the water became rough, the waves started to kick up and move everything around. The clouds rolled in and the sky became dark. The water was tossing large vessels like a child flinging toys around the room when frustrated. It was all happening fast. The water started pouring from the sky. The […]

One of the best speeches ever written… we are different but so much the same.

Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles’ Funeral Oration  from the Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46) “Most of my predecessors in this place have commended him who made this speech part of the law, telling us that it is well that it should be delivered at the burial of those who fall in battle. For myself, I should have […]

Why I Think Business is Personal **Remembering Arden**

I met Arden (aka Spook) in the late 1990’s after I was lucky enough to get a job at a little internet startup company called ExisNet.    I was troubled by some of life’s lessons and I was looking for myself.   Spook was one of the supervisors at ExisNet, he was a Marine (retired) […]