When Love is Love

It is true that safe is safer and the danger's in the risk, but what is there without the risk except safer? There could not be love 'cause love requires risking everything and everything's not safer. But everything is everything and who would risk it all? Only those that love and know that love is risking all.

Inspired by Shakespears's Sonnetts 46 & 47 You to me: My heart and mind are at a mortal war, As now divide the fulness of my love; My heart: my love thy love in me doth live, My mind: my love thy love in me I fear. My heart doth know that thou in me not lie, My mind a quest of thoughts that will not let this be, O that I could rid my mind of these and listen to my heart. Me to you: Between my mind and heart a league is took, And each doth good turns now unto the other; When that my mind is thinking of a way, My heart in love, my mind, its thoughts are clear. Another time my mind is my heart's guest, And in my thoughts my heart doth share a part; So either by my mind or by my heart Thyself are present still in both. You to me: For thou not further than my thoughts can move, And I am still with them and they with thee, So by my heart, my thoughts no longer only in my mind, But also in my heart, and all my thoughts of thee. Now I also feel, the feelings causing me to know Not ...

February 13, 2021 To Curt's Children: I would like to share just a few observations and experiences I had with Curt.   We met many years before we started the Franchise Development Group.   He was a loan officer for Zions Bank, and I was an attorney with some expertise in Truth in Lending Laws.   Curt and I worked together on some of the bank’s Truth in Lending Disclosure Forms.   We decided that we should do some seminars on Truth and Lending, so we did a few of them, had a great response and made a little money together.   It was my first experience seeing Curt teaching others. I was so impressed, and came to see his teaching skills many times later. I called him one day and asked if he would be interested in working with me to start Franchise Development Group.   It was at a time in his life when he was looking and he agreed.   So we filed a new business entity under the name Franchise Development & Marketing Group.   That was the beginni...