One of the things in life I have been blessed with is good guides.  People that came along and who may not have changed the course in a dramatic way, but they gave me a nudge.  If you surround yourself with wise people even the most difficult of times can be survived.

Of course the problem is I don’t know how to find them.  They have just been there for me,  In Battle Creek, in Portland, in Vegas, and in the schools in which I have worked they just were THERE.

The people I have had in my life in the last 15 years are the second reason (trees being the first) I believe there is a God.