Recently, I went to Denver on a business trip that involved difficult meetings, giving a speech, and so on. That all went well enough, and finally I got to go to the airport and begin the homeward journey. There, I stood once again before the larger-than-life statue of Jack Swigert on the B concourse, a […]
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Snapshot: Gardeners Are Idealists
Gardeners are natural idealists, I believe. We usually have a pretty well-formed ideal in our mind for the garden we tend, and we are constantly – day by day and season by season – trying to move our garden reality toward that prefigured ideal. I don’t think you can be a cynical or pessimistic gardener, […]
Snapshot: Love and Death
Non-gardeners do not really understand gardeners, for the most part. In general, they think gardening is an activity that is rather tiresome and pointless, and that it has to do with getting pretty flowers to grow in order to make the yard look nice. They think, in short, that if you want to have flowers […]
Snapshot: Rave Runs
There are lots of great things about being a businessman with an international focus and responsibility. The work I do is widely varied, and the variety is endlessly interesting. I meet with media executives from South Africa to the Philippines, Chile to China. The travel, while it can be grueling at times and not nearly […]
Snapshot: Beach Reading
Late every August, like clockwork it seems, there comes that special morning when you stumble outside to get the paper and stop in your tracks because something is wrong. Instead of the heat and muggy humidity you were accustomed to and expecting, you feel cooler and drier air. It is like the fresh slap in […]
