Wise Words

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

~ Thomas Sowell

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

~ Josh Billings

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

~ Lena Horne

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

~ George Washington

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

-Shirley Chisolm

Gold Canyon, AZ -- Last decade, in 2019 to be exact, we came up with an original name for the road leading to our 25-acre ranch in Gold Canyon where we were hunkering down, mask-free. In the 1990s we built a ropes course here in cooperation with non-profit Educational Endeavors. Today, much of the course still stands, but Venture Up Way now leads to Superstition Acres, a fruit farm and winery slated to open in the next year if fate is in our favor.