Wednesday, look at all of the other children, their freckles, their bright little eyes, their eager, friendly smiles. Help them.  — Addams Family Values

One of the things I bring to most encounters is an ability to bring everyone else back down to earth. I’ve spent too many years tilting at windmills, chasing rainbows, and trying to make the latest great idea work to not look at something with a jaundiced eye.  I do try to make, hopefully, constructive suggestions. Maybe I don’t drink a lot of kool-aid anymore, but I try to not go off on flights of ecstasy when something I want to happen turns out to be a complete cluster.

Of course, watching the faces of the devoted as they realize that the sun continues to set in the west, no matter how much they believe or how fervently they devote themselves to their cause of making it set in the east, is a priceless experience.