The Cool Down

Leadership lessons from unexpected places. Books I couldn't put down, movies I think about for weeks and months after watching, and the occasional detour into whatever else life happens to be teaching me.

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The Portrait That Helped Me Move Cities

I walked into that exhibition hoping the paintings would reassure me everything was going to be okay. A landscape didn't do it. A portrait of a woman with big green eyes did.