Musings at Altitude

Let’s suppose just for a moment that each day is a new beginning, starting with a magnificent sunrise that signals excitement, enlightenment, and challenges ahead.  And let’s suppose that throughout the day, that beautiful sunrise gives way to an awesome adventure and a day long journey, filled with opportunities to learn, to serve, to give, to […]

It’s a special day. A day specifically set aside to give thanks. And on this very special day, I’d like to give thanks: to our Creator for His magnificent creation to my family for their unconditional love to my mentors and their incredible wisdom to my coworkers and their incredible passion and commitment to my […]

Who does it hurt more – the one you know isn’t capable of doing the job or those around that individual who are expected to cover the one that is letting others down? Who does it hurt more - the one you put on a pedestal to try and protect for the team or the team who […]

What does it mean to be nimble in business? Recognizing an opportunity and being the first in to take advantage of it? Recognizing a change in the market and adapting your service or product to reflect the new or changing interests? Realizing members of your team or your team leaders may not be the ones […]

It’s so simple to affirm. And yet so many of us fail to do it frequently enough to encourage or motivate our team members. For something so easy to do and something we’re all free to do as much as we feel comfortable doing, we sure don’t do it enough. Accomplishments are happening all the […]

Our democratic governor elect announced these priorities tonight: spend less reduce the state government focus on small business growth no new taxes lure new business to the area For a minute I was wondering who I was listening to. Then I realized that most of our country wants these very things. Could we be close […]

The colors in the sky this morning were spectacular, and I once again thought about how awesome God is to surround us with such beauty!  Several of the pictures are shown below, accompanied by the verses that come to mind as I look at each: Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament […]

This is about as good as it gets…from Josh Patterson on The Village Church blog: I was reminded that freedom comes through sacrifice.  The freedom that you and I enjoy has been afforded to us by the blood of those who willingly laid down their lives to preserve it.  It was not free to purchase, […]

We had a special visitor in our neighbor’s front yard yesterday: As I walked out to get the picture, our visitor just stood and stared at me.  When I turned and went back in the house, our visitor went right back to grazing. There’s something very appealing about grazing, stopping and staring, and then grazing again! […]

Thank you John Maxwell for this posting: Just wanted to talk about baloney Priceless!