The first 3 days of the week we had Paul Leavenworth with us. He is one of those people who have expierience for decades in a certain topic, in his case mentoring and project-managment and all that kind of stuff. That after 40 +/- years of learning all of that and mostly through own experience he came to some very basic conclusions that unfortunatly arent valued very much as it seems. It's:

• Teachabillity
• Faithfullness

We, even in the area around us we go for so many other things, like how outspoken or loud someone is or how many friends (if there's really such a thing) and contacts someone has and those kind of things. This elevates a small percentage of people and is a curse to people like me who just are different. Beeing a extreme introvert alone seems like a sickness or something, even though I have many ideas of projects since my youth and only just recently (last year), with the age of 27, could bring something to life. I hope that I'm one day able to enable people like me, whether it's about theyr choice of trade in life or if it's a certain project.

Additional to all that he told us also about his life and how little influence we really have about the future of our kids, which is scary. I have a daughter, soon another child, and we will go to africa for a unknown period of time and I don't want to be all like how things are bad "over there", they are the same way messed "up here" but in different areas. You can try to point in the right direction, probably push them a little bit but at the end they make the final decisions; whether they are good or bad. One thing (not the only thing) I'd hopefully remember is to always keep the focus on the marriage since that's what you're still going to have when the kids are out of the house (or jail or where ever). To hear something like this from a guy who everybody seems like he has everything in order and to hear the stories of his kids (and I won't get into to much details) is scary. You think there's a safe island or hideout you can reach with that whole thing but there is really not.

Now all of this sounds very depressing and it is actually not, it's just late on a sunday evening and I really should go to bed... :-)

No pictures this time...

Chef Paul