Monday, June 1, 2009
When Daniel Pink suggests in his book (“A Whole New Mind – why right-brainers will rule the future”) that the left-brain approach to a world in transition is old school, he got my attention. All my life, I’ve felt something like a misfit. And now that I’m approaching the autumn of my [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Story
Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Disney, Left-brain, Pixar, right brain, Story, Up on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Too soon to call it summer
Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Memorial Day, Summer on May 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Well, the college graduations are finishing up, reports of the high profile speeches make the rounds. The long Memorial Day weekend is now behind us. We got caught up in it, too. Ours was one of those quintessential American weekends.
We had a moving dose of patriotism in our worship on Sunday morning; [...]
Memorization
Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Ben Patterson, Forest Home, God's Prayer Book, Hope College, J Edwin Orr, Prayer, Psalms, The Wittenberg Door, Westmont College on May 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Ben Patterson introduced his third session in a series on prayer for a group of pastors up at the mountain conference center. He commented that some of his long time friends find it intriguing that the man we knew back in the day would have landed on this devotional topic [...]
Packages, Bows and Tattoos
Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Gift bag, Mother's Day on May 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Monday, May 11, 2009
The older I get, the more I like to prepare in advance for a day like Mother’s Day. That said, I was one of those last minute guys picking up the Hallmark Card over there at the corner Drug Store on Saturday afternoon.
I wasn’t alone. There were several other guys like me [...]
Dark Horse
Posted in LeaderFOCUS, tagged Ascot, Bennie Woolley, Calvin Borel, Hillenbrand, Kentucky Derby, Lerner and Lowe, Mine that Bird, My Fair Lady, Red Pollard, Seabiscuit, Sheik Mohammed on May 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Monday, May 4, 2009
Several years back, a good friend recommended Laura Hillenbrand’s compelling book, Seabiscuit, An American Legend. She said that I would enjoy the author’s work as much as I would the story. She was right on both counts.
The story kept me engaged from beginning to end. Hillenbrand’s style kept me there. Leslie Green [...]
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