Brown Motion

This summer before it finally wrapped up (as in before the schools began, which is late AUG), we took one last road trip - this time into the heart of the Sierras. The Sierra mountain chain to me represents the alpine wonder next door - as in 5 hour motorable wonderland with many snow capped peaks as high as 11,000 feet. Snow on some adjacent higher elevation peaks in some cases never melts and for someone like me who only likes to see it from a distance and not under my feet; provides a spectacle worth driving for. We also cruised into some other scenic wonders formed by ancient geological events that left alpine lakes in the bowls and valleys between the mountains. Distraction - I want to blog about this whole idea of limitation of the Queen's language forcing a young writers imagination to comparing my adventure to that in the ALPS - wonderful in many ways but not necessarily a Comparison Point I would argue. The Rockies and its subranges which includes the Sierra Nevada in...

Across large and small organizations in the jungle called Corporate America, management struggles with making the quarterly numbers that wall street is looking for, the only score card that matters as it would seem. Very little is understood of the makeup of the leadership that has been put in charge. Understood from a standpoint of their moral and ethical qualities that is. Much similar is the landscape on the local to state to the federal government leadership positions where 'Abuse/Misuse of Power' seems to be an undisclosed feature of the position in question and the only runway one has to navigate is the one that lasts till the next election. It is not easy being moral or ethical. Neither is leadership. To be a true leader requires that these qualities be inherent as one would think. Oddly all of these positions of power are elected or so it would appear; and so to an extent the people in a democracy deserve what they get. Shame on us then? So the question o...

This July I could not find time to blog since we (as in the family unit of 3) were on the road (in the air and on the water as well) a bit. After having wrapped a rather fun filled trip to Orange County (signifying the once extravagant citrus production but now taken over by humans wanting to change their skin tone through solar exposure on the sand) earlier in July we headed to the south coast of the Mexican United States - specifically to the state of Jalisco and to the city of Puerto Vallarta (IATA code is PVR). This city by the coast is part of the Mexican Riviera and affords its visitors with a view of lush tropical jungles on the slopes of the Sierra Madre on the east with sweeping coastlines and rocky coves making the western seafront. Our place of residence was a resort in the famous 'Bahia de Banderas'. It had its own beach front and a slew of wading options where one could choose to either get hammered by the natural salinity of the waves or loiter in the chlor...