Pilgrim's Door

Haunted By Waters

Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by Katherine Martinez.

I’m enjoying a 2-day respite on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Paul, MN– here for the 125th Anniversary of the ECC Annual Meeting.

Being a “mountain girl” I’m in a foreign land here– especially as it comes to rivers.

I remember a friend from the east once laughed when I took him on a mountain drive and referred to our Big Thompson as a “river.” Walking along the Mississippi one understands why he would laugh. [...]

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Collins, Core and Church

Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Katherine Martinez.

Looking back through highlights and underlines in Collins’ How the Mighty Fall. Here’s nice take-away. (Well, I liked it.)

A Core business that meets a fundamental human need– and one at which you’ve become best in the world– rarely becomes obsolete (32).

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