The long-ago poem Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, includes, near the end, these two lines...

"Tis not too late to seek a newer world...

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

This podcast is about change, which happens all the time to all of us, some benign and some not. We are told that it is not what happens, but how we respond, that is most important.

Still, change can be tough, challenging and a little fearful. But we have no alternative but to try.

From seeing firsthand the move to Winston-Salem from Wake Forest for the school that bears the town's name, to my own time as a federal prosecutor, private law practice and the subsequent years reinventing myself, I have experienced major change close up.

I am today, as the song from South Pacific goes, a "cockeyed optimist. I want to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.

I hope the same for you as well.