About

Hello there!  For a guy who spends much of his life communicating to various groups of people, I have a terrible time describing myself. Wait, make that trying to describe myself in a pithy, clever, engaging way to that you’ll think I’m at least as creative and funny and brilliant as all these other guys who have blogs. There are several things I feel that I do reasonably well, but telling people about myself is not even close to being one of them. I don’t have a single favorite movie or a favorite candy bar  or a favorite color. I can tell you that I have a great wife who makes me smile, 3 little girls that I adore, that I’m a small town boy at heart who enjoys conversation, coffee, books and baseball.  And I love what I get to do, which is helping people understand their life story so they can learn to be fully awake and alive in The Great Story.   

 

Oh, and I guess it would be helpful if I told the story behind the title of the blog.  I’ve always loved history and once stumbled across the fable of the Man and the Lion:

 

The Man once invited Lion to be his guest, and received him with princely hospitality.  The Lion had the run of a magnificant palace, in which there were a vast many things to admire.  There were large saloons and long corridors, richly furnished and decorated, and filled with a profusion of fine specimens of sculpture and painting, the works of the first masters in either art.  The subjects represented there were various; but the most prominent of them had special interest for the noble animal who stalked by them.  It was that of the Lion himself; and as the owner of the mansion led him from one apartment into another, he did not fail to direct his attention to the indirect homage which these various groups and tableaux paid to the importance of the lion tribe.  There was, however, one remarkable feature in all of them, to which the host, silent as he was from politeness, seemed not at all insensible; that diverse as were these representations, in one point they all agreed, that the man was always victorious and the lion was always overcome…When the lion finished his tour of the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendors it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of its owner and the skill of its decorators, but he added: ‘Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.’”

(quoted in the introduction to Thomas Cahill’s “How the Irish Saved Civilization”)

 

So the point is this: sometimes, in order to gain a greater sense of perspective and a deeper appreciation for the beautiful collisions of our world, we need to ponder another point of view and in doing so, we discover a journey worth taking.  And, if we dare, we might just even find ourselves “entertaining lions.”