BLOGS

“Are we there yet?”

Like antsy children in the backseat of the car on long road trip, we’re all wondering when we will reach the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Is there an end? What exactly will it look like?

“It’s all the rage,” my father said. “Everyone is doing it.”

I was a bit skeptical.

When you look at a propane torch, the blue portion of the fire is the innermost part that burns the hottest. Just like that torch, we all have an (albeit figurative) blue flame – a sense of passion and purpose and love that burns hotter than anything else inside our souls – that fuels us throughout our lives and gives us unique talents to share with the world.

As I consider the next chapter of my life, I turn to my past heroes for advice. I first heard one of my heroes, Stephen R. Covey, speak in 1972 when I was the ripe old age of 21.

As I write this, I am watching history disappear. We just started a large home renovation project. My house is a series of additions. It started with the original 14-by-20-foot, one-and-a-half-story house built in the 1800s.