I donated an hour flight to a non-profit organization (www.georgiafalconryassociation.com) several months ago and the auction winners and I took to the skies yesterday morning. It was the first time in a small plane for one of them, and like most who dare to ascend to the heavens above with me, they did great! One …
Tag: overcoming fear
Mental Blocks
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...do the thing you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt While there is a world of difference between your actual limitations and limitations you've accepted for yourself that don't really exist, the two are identical …
Self-Discipline
A low pressure system moved through our area over the last few days and its attendant cold front finally moved through ushering in cold, strong, gusty winds. I checked the local airport's automated weather station and the winds we 22 gusting to 31 out of the west and the ceiling at the time was a …
A True Lady or Gentleman
I am inclined to agree more with Theodore Roosevelt's assessment that courtesy is "as much a mark of a gentleman" than with Honore de Balzac's less encouraging assessment of courtesy being "only a thin veneer on the general selfishness." While the latter may be more predominantly the case, the former holds in it the promise …
Gregory Hake 