The Headwaters Blog

When you’ve lived as long as I have, you start to see the bare bones of life. We’re not a bunch of random thoughts and feelings. God built us with three different compartments, all humming at the exact same time: the Head, the Heart, and the Soul.

Pull that chair up a little closer. I've got something important to talk to you about. I’ve sit and listened to the younger fellows talk. A lot of them in their forties and fifties, right in the thick of their earning years. They use a lot of big, shiny words they learned in business, and one of them is: "Exit Strategy."

Listen, if there’s one thing seventy-some years on this green earth has taught me, it’s a lesson in basic plumbing. This isn't a polite thing to talk about, but you wouldn’t dream of leaving a "gift" in the porcelain throne and just walking away, letting it sit there would you? Of course not. It’s unclean, it’s ugly, and frankly, it starts to stink up the whole house. So, why in the world do you keep doing it with your head?

Listen, being a Vietnam Vet I’ve spent more years than I’d like to admit thinking everything in this life had to be bought with sweat, blood, or a stack of paperwork. In the service, you don't get anything you don't earn. But life outside the wire? That’s a different story.