Dare to Dream with Open Eyes

Having Visionary Resolve and the Courage to Act

By George Belsky, Blue Courage/Purple Resolve Master Educator

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it...

In the Midnight Hour…

(with Apologies to Wilson Pickett)

By George Belsky, Jr.

I was working a midnight tour.  I was relatively new to the department having just completed a comparative compliance academy and field training.  It was not my first night on this shift, but I was still very new to the squad, the city, and my patrol zone.  It was 0-Dark-30 and cold, I had the...

Spider Resilience: What We Can Learn about Getting Back Up from a Garden Spider

Leadership Lessons from the Garden

June 19, 2023

By Jocelyn Little

Spiders. Many people do not like them. I do not like them. I have a slight phobia of spiders ever since I had a large spider jump down my shirt in high school as I tried to catch grasshoppers for my pet chameleon. These days, my policy on spiders is...