Len Waldron is a colleague and friend. I had come to know Len during some dark days for our industry. And we’ve all heard the line – you get to know someone when the going gets tough. Len is a good man.
Len is an avid outdoors enthusiast and a writer on the subject. Check out his website at www.waldronpond.com. (No worries…I don’t get any royalties of any type for producing this blog or referring Len’s site. I just think it’s cool…and his writing is exceptional.)
Given that one leg of my Lead.Learn.Live blog is LEARN, I’ve asked Len to share his thoughts on the subject.
Here are Len’s 10 “naked lessons re-learned by a repetitively-flawed human who should have done better…”
Enjoy!
40 Years of Nudity…
Confessions from the Cusp of Middle Age
By Len Waldron
I don’t turn forty until October, but as my mother bore me in a normal way, I have been at least a zygote or better, for forty years. Many women in my life (my wife and mother included), and a few men, have characterized me as ‘stubborn.’ I fear they are correct. I have white-knuckled notions that I should have discarded and hard-headed my way down paths that were less-than-productive. Why nudity? Because naked is how I feel when I make mistakes that I have been advised against. Mistakes of ignorance are simply life, and if in your soul you know that you didn’t know better, it’s easier to mark-up a mistake as a lesson. The naked mistakes are those where someone, likely older or at least wiser, passed on some bit of advice that got ignored. In those moments, I feel naked. A repetitively-flawed human who should have done it better…and the whole world is watching. I’ll spare you the actual disrobings, but the following is a testimonial of ten naked lessons I had to re-learn (often more than once) over forty years, and dedicated to those who tried to warn me.