I’m one of those weird people who like “talk television.” I like to at least hear interviews, press conferences, etc. from time to time. I may not watch all that closely, but I do enjoy what I hear. I recently ran across something I wrote about one of those experiences several years ago. I think what I wrote then still has some application today. After all this time, I do not remember his name, but I do remember that he had served as a Major General in what we now know as Operation Desert Storm. As I remember it, he was describing with a sense of pride how those under his command had performed. …

There are a lot of reasons why I am glad that I was not born in China. Among those reasons would be that, according to what I’ve read, the Chinese language has about 50,000 characters or ideographs. I have enough trouble with our twenty-six letters! I have read also that the character for crisis is really a combination of two other ideographs. The Chinese put the character for danger and the one for opportunities together to form the word crisis. I think that is an interesting way to view a crisis. Sometimes all we seem to be able to see is the danger in a crisis. Maybe we need to also look for the opportunities…