“Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart."
-Vaclav Havel
This is my mother, Dora, throwing a coin into the Trevi Fountain in Rome in 1963.
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In life, there is medicine in all kinds of things that don’t live in a little rust-colored plastic bottle with a tamper-proof top, and a white label on the side stating, "no refills.”
Today’s remedy comes from an oversized suitcase…
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This summer, I discovered that I have way too much stuff. I first found this out after we sold our house; seventeen years of accumulated junk—er…stuff—gone.
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There is a special place in my heart for Love Field—and not only because of its name. I love Love Field because it was my point of departure from which I set off to see the rest of this wide world.
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When you find a good beach with a great, unobstructed view of the ocean, the shade of a swaying palm tree, powder-like sand to sink your toes into... why would you ever leave?
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There is a saying: perceptions are reality. Of course this is not true, and it’s important to untether yourself from the tyranny of how you think things will be, so that you may be open to other realities—perhaps more “real” than those you bring with you.
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They both had this in common: a wonderful lack of understanding (or care) about what they were “supposed to be doing,” as well as an unlimited horizon of what they MIGHT do.
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These aircraft are built for journeys—journeys which connect people, goods, and ties of all kinds, binding humanity and commerce together.
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