Three things you need and an inspirational poem.

1. To be a great leader, you need patience, charisma and a good supply of
excellent coffee.
Now and then, you should read a poem:
The Rhinecliffe Arms
(for Linda, drinking champagne)
Half Irish and Half Iroquois?
Half Elven? what I would have said:
Please (kiss me) Please? -- I'd call, but now
My cell don't work at Shady in
The shadow of Mt. Guardian
You looked so pretty in dark pink --
Dark hair dark eyes; you know I think
You're beautiful? Three girls
Were dancing near the fiddlers
While I watched: you, Linda, smile
While ordering your "usual" --
Champagne. Again.
You ate alone.
I can't find Rhinecliffe, it's too far
to bike in winter, I think -- nor
Can I teach you: How to plan
To find and keep a loving man?
Study "le Tantra?"? the Twilight
Language? of the Hudson going gray
On this cold early winter day
While children dance and fiddlers play ...
Old men can painfully regret
All things that have not happened yet:
(Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid:)
All things the dear God will have made.
I know you know
Men may tell lies:

2. (the beauty I see in your eyes ...
reminds me of Mead's Meadow where
My glider rose while we all stared
To watch it flying out of sight)
(You know I really hoped you might)
I don't need sprightly Irish tunes
To know there'll be more Linda soon
Than drinking dry champagne alone ...
There will be children running home
To warm dark eyes, and to her stew
Of light and love and laughter too
Funny, isn't it, that we
Met for a moment, suddenly:
Me so homeless, you
So full of home ...?
I write sometimes about missing
Women I won't meet again --
(Who might have loved me?) Linda now
Don't cry; you were too young for me --
Despite which, I believed in thee
-- Christian Gehman