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HAPPY MONDAY! Too much water brings us today’s word-of-the-week… COMPARE Colorado just experienced what some scientists call a 500-year flood. In a semi-arid climate, some areas received more than a normal year’s worth of rain in twenty-four hours. However you categorize it, things are a mess. People died. Entire towns are literally unreachable. Hundreds of […]

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Some Days…

…it’s hard to write because the ideas just won’t come. Some days it’s hard because the house is filled with friends who dropped everything and showed up when they heard you had three inches of water in your basement. So you’re grateful, but it’s hard to sit at a computer while people carry soaked boxes […]

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Who’s Thirsty?

Maybe we ought to spend a little less time and effort telling people they’re thirsty. That’s another challenge I brought away from our time with Bob Goff last week. I’ll confess: I had to ponder this one a bit. Before reading further, what do you think he meant? I occasionally ride bikes with friends, and honestly […]

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Welcome

Happy Monday! A really smart guy got me thinking about todays’ word-of-the-week… WELCOME I was privileged to hear Bob Goff speak last Thursday, then Becky and I spent a couple of hours with him and about twenty people at breakfast the next morning. Over the next few days I’ll share some of the nuggets swirling […]

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A Tribute Without Words

Happy Saturday! I have a sense that someday, a very long time in the future, archeologists or anthropologists will study our civilization and conclude that its most creative members made beer commercials. I’ll allow you to decide the implications of that trend, but this company certainly has a history of entertaining, sometimes meaningful ads. This week […]

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A Mob Of Hope

What’s your mental image of a “mob”? Did you think of a crime syndicate led by a “mob boss”? How about mob violence, or mob mentality? Mostly a mob isn’t a good thing. Mobs tend to be disorderly and out of control. They’re spontaneous, usually in a disruptive way. So what in the world is a HopeMob? […]

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