Sunday Evening Reflections

• One of the pleasures of maintaining a lawn is you can actually see the results of your work as the work progresses. That is not the case in many professions where the payoff, if any, is delayed for months or years.
• I long for the days when ministers rarely gave their opinions on political issues. Political opinions are now so commonly dispensed in the guise of "social justice" that many churches resemble social service agencies with steeples.
• It's surprising that bookstores, which have separate sections for Mysteries and Science Fiction, don't have a section for novels devoted to Dysfunctional Families. Given the nature of modern fiction, that section would require many shelves.
• We study separate subjects in school and later appreciate just how interrelated those subjects are.
• The Liberal Arts profs who groan over business grads who've never studied Shakespeare are themselves colossally ignorant when it comes to capitalism.
• I love email but we lost a great deal when we stopped writing letters. Who's going to save old email messages?
• If there were any justice in the world, more people would be familiar with the novels of Patrick O'Brian.
• The most dreaded item in the doctor's office is the scale.
• All places look better in the early morning.
• All cars look better in black.
• Jerry Garcia may be remembered longer for his ties than for his music.
• Rather than seeing "The Black Dahlia," movie lovers should check out "True Confessions," a film based on a novel by John Gregory Dunne. The acting by Robert DeNiro and Robert Duvall in that film has to rank as some of the finest in the history of cinema.
• When to step back and when to engage are two of the toughest questions faced by managers.
• Leadership is better taught by leading than by any class.
• The invention of the cubicle was a sad day in the American workplace.
• There are few ideas so foolish that at least a few Fortune 500 CEOs won't embrace them.