Warsaw Today...Whiteflash Reminds Us Who Is Boss!

Some of you who are following my comments from the field....as a global traveller, a college president who sees the world from ground level as well as from 30,000 feet....so today I landed in Warsaw, Poland.

This country has just been rocked with the air tragedy that killed its President and half of the top government officials...we are reminded that Whiteflash moments can also be tragic...we are not in control...we may sometimes think we are, but we are really not....

I was greeted at the airport by my old friend, co-author and dear friend, Andrzej, still giving dynamic professorial lectures to doctoral students at 79....

Andrzej was always a strong-heart hero of mine.  Type A+ work ethic, a true critical thinker, amazingly creative.  He was successful in every era in contemporary Polish society and history.  He still has drive.  He still looked at this tragedy for the hope and "anything good....there is always something good" in tragedy.   His spirit is invincible.  I walked with him after our reunion lunch through the mass throngs of people who were silent in their showing up for the massive demonstration of grief.  I saw a child, no older than 5 years old, on his knees crying out loud...I saw thousands of empty stares, candles lit, flowers strewn in the streets...

But, Andrzej is the spirit of the new Poland.  He always was.  Even when it was "old Poland"....he looks to the rim, the horizon and sees far beyond what most can see...

He knows the spirit of Whiteflash....he knows that the human spirit rises, always, to meet whatever it must meet...

....we are never finished with Whiteflash...it shows us its power in our lives, from love, to miracles, to tragedy...

...we are not alone....

Thanks, Andrzej!