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My lovely bride, Ka, has once again taken up her exploration of faith and inspiration via artwork. No matter your beliefs, you might want to check out Fig Tree Tidings to see how she mixes photographic forms with vivid abstractions. I am amazed and so proud of what she's doing.

The past several days had a way of reminding me why I wound down the types of part-time consulting I did most often as part of Small Initiatives.

My Scripps job keeps me hopping, now more than ever, as we rethink what it means to be a local news media company from this point forward. That rethinking also makes the job far more interesting, mostly in good ways. I am certainly not being denied the strategic responsibilities I coveted so long.

Meanwhile, consulting tasks people most frequently asked me to do when I ran SI -- and about which I still get questions most every day -- frankly become less interesting by the minute: