Monday, November 23, 2009

Giving Thanks On Thanksgiving

I have always looked forward to Thanksgiving. Christmas is still my favorite, but I am fiercely protective of Thanksgiving.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Personally, I don’t allow myself to look at store displays or listen to radio stations that seem determined to trample Thanksgiving and Halloween in their frantic push to get us to spend our money. Heck, you know if they could back up, roll over Labor Day, and get a bite of the 4^th of July, they’d do that too!

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Butterfly Effect

No project I have ever done in my life has affected me so profoundly as the research I did a few years ago on The Butterfly Effect. Working with the United States Air Force at the time, I was charged with finding “proof of the value of an individual life”. At that time, the military as a whole was just discovering that suicide had become more prevalent within their ranks than with the civilian population as a whole.

The answer for which I was searching was way beyond encouragement. What if, I thought, the average, ordinary person walking around was offered proof—convinced beyond...