The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms. – Matsuo Basho This week I’ve been part of two celebrations of extended commitment, and both have illuminated a quiet, steady, durable form of leadership, the kind that compounds over days and months and years into something monumental. What a joy to see […]
Friendship is a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sometimes friendship is a welcoming pine amidst a crowded forest, offering a pocket of quiet soft ground beneath. Sometimes friendship is a giant old oak, gnarled and craggy and missing a branch or two, but still standing strong and holding a […]