From Dale

I feel like in recent weeks I have addressed lay leaders about FCC’s immediate future, matters you must attend to.  That might befuddle some of you. Some ask, why bother? Why not just let go and move on?  Three reasons.  After I’m gone, I can’t and won’t say a word: it’s a speak-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace moment. Second, […]

John Lennon wrote, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” Our ongoing struggle against COVID-19, worsening even now, is a study in life, interrupted. First, this means lives and families interrupted as 130,000 have died in the USA. We have 4% of the world’s population and suffer 25% of the world’s mortality […]

If you didn’t see my message last night announcing my retirement this autumn, you might want to check your email.  A glitz in the system made it look like it was from Ben, but it was of course from yours truly. Life is complicated and imperfect. May I draw an analogy to this moment where […]

We see things differently now than we did six weeks ago.  We will not return to the normal we knew before.  Together we’ll carve out a new normal over the next couple years. Things looming very large and important—air travel, mergers and acquisitions, and the Stanley Cup—now seem like a distant memory.  And the simple […]