When I was a boy, my late father, who spent his entire life working as a farmer, told me that nothing grows by itself. Everything must be nurtured to maturity. I think he was talking
about his own kids since the conversation took place during one of his mentoring sessions with one of his three trouble-causing sons…me. That session, along with many others, probably
involved some much-deserved physical mentoring, but that’s another story for another time.

During that particular mentoring session, Dad shared another nugget of information that has stuck with me..You see, Dad was proud of the work he did; he enjoyed being able to look back at the end of the day, or week, until the crops were harvested to see the results of his labor. Dad realized that he looked at things from a farmer’s perspective which, by no means, was the only way to view things. The nugget he shared was that many things, again, kids in particular, had to be seen from a forester’s point of view. That view being that some times it takes years, not days or weeks, to be able to measure results.  ...more | Gazette Archives