by Walt Hampton | Apr 11, 2024 | Success
I was out on the rock face at about 11,000′ enjoying the view. The climbing was fairly straightforward, and flowed easily, even though I didn’t know the way. My climbing partner was 100 yards below me and to my left in a narrow cleft. He was trying a different...
by Walt Hampton | Apr 4, 2024 | Success
Doom. All. The. Time. Everywhere it seems. From the talking heads; non-stop newsfeeds; streams of social media. Incessant spewing about the roiling of the markets, climate change, gun violence, racism, antisemitism, political upheaval. It can be overwhelming to be...
by Walt Hampton | Mar 22, 2024 | Success
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. — Isaiah 43:19 The bears are waking up. That is what the local newspaper said. I’m guessing that’s...
by Walt Hampton | Mar 15, 2024 | Success
Would that it were so! That might have been interesting. But alas… it was not my bed… I was handcuffed to work that was sucking my soul. I loved law school. The reading, the research, the classroom, the debates, the arguments. All of it. But within months of...
by Walt Hampton | Mar 8, 2024 | Success
I was carried away by the sound. Beautiful beyond words. Beautiful beyond anything I had ever heard. Each note, each passage, more glorious, more magnificent than the last. A soaring concerto. A virtuoso violinist. I was the commencement speaker at a high...
