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It’s the little things that bring great joy.   The Rhein River for example….if you look at a map – it actually flows south to north.   Starts in the Swiss Alps and makes its way to the North Sea in Rotterdam (766 miles total or 1232 km). The Rhein River is spelled differently depending on the country it flows through. It is spelled Rhein in Germany; Rhine in France and Rijn in Netherlands…and who knows the correct pronunciations; probably all different as well!  I happen to come into contact with this river in Schaffhausen, Germany…or rather a little village close by called Busingen. This past week when I was in Busingen for some more finance training; it was HOT.   Now – if you know me at all – I don’t do hot.   So when it was suggested that the thing to do in the summer was to float the Rhein River; I was all in!   Did I have a swimsuit? – nope but shorts/t-shirt will have to do J .   Did I have a floating device?– nope, the current carries you...

It’s been a while.   I wrote a whole long blog on the train last week as I was entering Denmark and going to camp for a week.   It didn’t sit right with me so never posted it.   So I’m trying again…a week later. LESS IS ENOUGH.   A gentleman I met just over a week ago said that to me.   He and his wife are Hungarian and she was the person who had a dream to start an English Camp in a park of Budapest; and it's been going for 4 years now.   I am not sure how it all came together but I was honored to be the ‘English’ organizer part of the camp this year.   I met this gentleman at the bar-b-que on Friday night after camp.   We were talking about the kids and I told him how really quite good they were…very kind and good to me anyway all week long.   He was recalling his time as a teenager in Communist times.   It was different then – and now his conclusion for this generation is LESS IS ENOUGH.   I agree for all of us - all genera...