I had an opportunity to travel to Scottsdale to be a national expert for the Arizona Transition Conference. But I learned something from the breathtaking countryside.

Did I pay more attention to twitters of bird song and the caress of the gentle breeze because I stepped outside the stressors of my busy life? Was it because I took vacation time, that I became more aware? I inhaled the vivid colors of endless crowds of glowing sunflowers nodding to each other all the way back to the shadowed blue-grey goal post of the mountains.