I once worked with the CEO of a hos­pi­tal who took respon­si­bil­i­ty for per­son­al­ly ensur­ing that every sin­gle piece of fur­ni­ture pur­chased would fit the hos­pi­tal’s exist­ing decor. Now, to be fair, the decor was a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from oth­er health care facil­i­ties and had a rela­tion­ship to brand. But it was dif­fi­cult to imag­ine… Con­tin­ue read­ing Respon­si­bil­i­ty as Abdication

There is some­thing both dan­ger­ous and fan­tas­tic about going to the ends of the earth.  There is a place where I expe­ri­ence both of those qual­i­ties in equal mea­sure — along the road south of Can­non Beach, Ore­gon, just at the rise on the side of Neahkah­nie Moun­tain. Who­ev­er built the road, and the pull-out to… Con­tin­ue read­ing Ends of the Earth