A friend of mine looked at me one day not long ago as I dragged in my daily five or six pounds of mail and said, “You and your media.” He was referring to my daily dose of magazines and newsletters that flood into my “snail” mailbox everyday– a heaping helping that at one time, required me to “make time” to get through it all.

But– as I often say and people often hear but don’t really hear AND I find myself saying more these days– “The simple truths are the greatest truths and things need to be a lot more simple.”

So, I have considerably cut down on the unending flood of literature that I used to think I needed to get through a week, month, quarter– whatever. And I look a lot more at what’s around me and at the simple things we often overlook. Let’s look at one very simple thing now. (more…)