"WITH BOMBS AND FIRES, YOU ONLY GET ONE MISTAKE." Red Adair We are at the start of the winter fire season here. The last two years has taught a lot of hard lessons and I think we need to be reminded of some safety precautions that can...
"ENVY IS THE ART OF COUNTING THE OTHER FELLOWS BLESSINGS, INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN." Harold Coffin The constant war of envy that so many take part in is what the commandment DO NOT COVET THY NEIGHBORS GOODS. There is also the one about the neighbors wife. Seems that...
"GOOD JUDGEMENT COMES FROM EXPERIENCE, AND A LOT OF THAT COMES FROM BAD JUDGEMENT." Will Rogers We always get the things turned around in life. When I was young and full of energy and optimism I needed good judgement. Now that I am older and cannot do much...
"NEXT TO THE WORD OF GOD, THE NOBLE ART OF MUSIC IS THE GREATEST TREASURE IN THE WORLD." Martin Luther One of the greatest things in my life was taking my music to another level. Most may have never heard me or have seen me perform. I had...
"EVERYBODY IN THEIR OWN IMAGINATION DECIDES WHAT SCARY IS." Yvonne Craig The world has been scary my whole life. When I was a toddler we could not eat snow ice cream anymore after the governments of the world started testing nuclear bombs at ground level. We were warned that...
"EDUCATION IS WHAT REMAINS AFTER ONE HAS FORGOTTEN WHAT ONE HAS LEARNED IN SCHOOL." Albert Einstein I had a conversation with a friend not long ago whose daughter is a math teacher. She said her daughter was very upset from taking classes to learn how to teach the...
"FALL IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES, BUT THEY KEEP TRYING TO RUIN IT." Roger Temperatures are cooling and rain keeps going just east of us but Fall has always been one of my favorite seasons. Mostly because when I was younger Fall and early winter always meant...
"OUR FATIGUE IS OFTEN CAUSED NOT BY WORK, BUT BY WORRY, FRUSTRATION, AND RESENTMENT." Dale Carnegie TECHNOIDIOCRACY, I invented a word! I expect that Webster will want to add this to the dictionary. What it describes is the fatigue and frustration that I, and I am sure many...
"LEADERSHIP IS PRACTICED NOT SO MUCH IN WORDS AS IN ATTITUDE AND IN ACTIONS." Harold S. Geneen The facts of fire have been driven home twice in two years here in Kansas and now it is California that is facing realities. Montana and Idaho have been facing all...
"YOU CAN DELEGATE AUTHORITY, BUT NOT RESPONSIBILITY." Byron Dugan There is always a big rush to take a horrible situation and turn it to something that shifts responsibility. Since the individual responsibility has been removed from everything those who would use this for their own reasons seem...