Musings at Altitude

I enjoy pondering.  In fact, I specifically need to carve out time to ponder.  And I have preferred times to ponder too – at altitude; while mowing the yard; while sitting on the back deck looking up into a sky filled with countless stars; while sitting on the front porch enjoying the morning breeze and watching […]

It’s been a long summer…for watching sports anyway. Tiger’s been on his game every now and then. Tennis has been fairly exciting at times. Every now and then there is a baseball game that seems exciting. But for most of the weekends from the end of basketball till now, the pastime has been much less […]

During my military career, I was stunned by how long it took to go from concept to product.  It could have been weapons, satellites, vehicles…it didn’t seem to matter…it seemed like everything took 12-15 years.  When I did my three year assignment at the Pentagon, I found out it wasn’t just products that took that […]

My life is perfectly balanced right now. My life is seemingly loaded with equal amounts of: clarity and obscurity support and opposition likes and dislikes friends and foes good days and bad days praises and criticisms desires and aversions assurances and worries So maybe perfect balance isn’t a good thing. Instead, maybe what I ought […]