Don Owens

Opinions are my own and do not represent those of the companies or organizations I serve within.

Defining the Good

The modern employee is less concerned with the accomplishment of an objective“good” and more concerned with self-fulfillment in the short...

Lycidas by John Milton

Edward King died at sea in 1637 when the ship he was aboard hit a rock off the coast of Wales. His peer at Cambridge, John Milton and...

Guiding Your Staff into Goal Setting

In October our organization begins the process of reflection and setting direction for the coming year. This should be far from a...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail

I was born three hours from the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail (AT). As a child, my father had us frequently in the Blue...

The Foreign Becoming Familiar

Eleven thousand people were killed and twenty thousand injured on December 23, 1972 when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook Managua,...

Best National Parks and When to Go

I love that our country cares about conserving land for the simple pleasure of taking in the view. C.S. Lewis said it best when he...

The Lost Tools of Learning

Why would we make Facebook responsible for managing news sources, censoring posts, or for that matter defining reality? Is it not an...

Rodin's Thinker is Pondering the Infinite

Musee Rodin in Paris is a visual delight and provides the quintessential opportunity to stroll and reflect as many hope to do on their...