If you watch a local TV morning news report while you begin your day, you will hear a weather forecast.  It is nearly certain the forecaster will refer to chance or probability in some fashion or another.  “The rain will hold off this morning, but most of the area has a chance for scattered showers – maybe even a thunderstorm – sometime in the late afternoon.”  

​I like flowers.  I don’t know much about them, but I like them.  Except for the most well-known (like a rose), it would be unusual for me to even know the name, but I like them.

​Life can follow challenging paths.  It can lead to frustration and anger.  It can bring sadness; even grief and loss may be included.  All of this can generate fear.  The path can unfold even more: exhaustion, drained feelings, and the experience of all energy – emotional and physical – having been spent.

​It’s pretty easy to think of many things which plague us, some of the time or all the time—the Coronavirus springs to mind. There’s a whole host of things of one kind or another that get into our days.  We can get wrapped up in a litany of problems and challenges.

It was 2009, January 15th of 2009 to be exact.  Sixty seconds after take-off the Airbus 360, US Airways Flight 1549, ran into a flock of geese.  

In the business world, it is sometimes said that paying close attention to the daily details is the path to long-term success.  The concept certainly applies to running a farm or operating a small business or even managing a household.
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This afternoon I heard a somber observation...