Time

Time and good counsel are the greatest gifts a mentor can give to a student. Many things are most easily learned by tuition. You can stumble upon them or learn them from books. But they are easiest to learn from a mentor. Note that I do not say a master, as in master/apprentice. While there …

The Gift

Gifts. Some are just plain suggestive. Some allow you to learn more about the giver than the giver intended. Others offer few clues, and you wonder what motivated the giver to provide the gift. The most important thing the recipient can learn is to be thankful and to display appreciation, even when it's "tighty whities" …