http://napkindad.com/blog Making your Brain Bigger and Your Day Better Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:10:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US So, you should avoid the mountaintop obviously.  Or maybe not.  The real mountaintop in a thunderstorm, good idea to avoid. However, the metaphorical mountaintop of life … there you want to be when the lightning strikes.  Creative, intellectual, social and entrepreneurial  bolts of lightning find you when you have hiked out from your cave, [...]]]> http://napkindad.com/blog/2010/06/08/it-is-the-mountaintop-that-the-lightning-strikes/ Fighting someone else’s fire is good, but it is always important to remember that self-preservation is not a sin. It does you no good to ignore your own home (relationship, family, job, etc.) while trying to save someone else’s. Doing both is the trapeze act we all have as part of a community of [...]]]> http://napkindad.com/blog/2010/01/04/winter-your-own-property-is-concerned/