In Flashing Steel, a book about samurai swordsmanship, the famous samurai Miyamoto Musashi is said to have told his disciple Jotaro that he should “aspire to be like Mt. Fuji. . . . With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji . . . you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces which shape events; not just the things happening near you” (2nd ed., p. 14).

I find it easy to keep my perspective too low, too deep in details. I want to have a perspective that sees the greater forces at work around me. That is why I named this blog “Pierce the Clouds.”

Since I am a communications manager at a nonprofit, most of the issues covered in this blog will be about communications or association management.

Note: the views expressed in this blog are mine only and don’t represent those of any other person or entity, such as my employer.