Column: Stop and smell the alpine

Sometimes I am terrible at learning lessons. In the clarity of aftermath, I can say confidently that a lesson has been learned, but a lesson is only truly learned when the next time I have the opportunity to make the same mistake, I don’t.Anytime you are new to something you don’t really know how things work, so you become a student of observation. Well, you don’t have to, you can close your mind and live based on impulse, but if you look around, that’s what a lot of people in our country are doing and it’s making for a frightening list of why that’s something to avoid.See full column HERE