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Beautiful sunset at the Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge show at The Minnesota State Fair last night. Both were great but I’d never seen Melissa before and… Wow!

Life hack: Surround yourself with women smarter than you and listen to them.

Guys, it’s really that simple. Listening to women is a superpower.

These are two really interesting takes on taking a sabbatical.

My wife and I often joke that we will never truly retire because who we are and what we do for income are so intertwined. I guess that probably goes for sabbaticals too.

Today Beatrix has her last day of back-to-school shopping with her Aunt. Tomorrow will be her last first day of high school.

The next year will be filled with lots of these.

A year of lasts.

Current thought pattern: Almost everything we know about past civilizations we know because of their arts. The architecture, the pottery, the painting, the writing, the mosaics, the jewelry, etc.

Why do the arts matter? Thousands of years from now, it’s the only way we’ll be remembered.