Once Chief of Staff to Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Chairman of the Board of LBJ Holding Company, and having been a Director on a number of Wall Street Boards of Directors, I learned to recognize truly talented leaders with extraordinary potential.

10-23-13 Giving and receiving forgiveness are the closest things to Grace that one human being can do for another. D. Lovett

12-25-13 I want to know personal things about extremely intelligent people: "When did you last cry? Why?"

1-2-14 A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single woman contemplates it, bearing within her the image of a cathedral." Antoine De Saint-Exupery

3-17-14 "It is not who is going to let me; it's who will stop me." Ayn Rand

7-4-14 "We struggle, and then we rise; we struggle, and we rise yet again, moving ever nearer spiritual freedom. This is a staggering challenge." D.Lovett

7-7-14 "Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy -- joy arises from within." Eckhart Tolle

11-30-14 I live alone now in a small, old townhouse in Dallas, writing. Solitude is a balm to the ragged soul. D. Lovett

1-10-16 Had to move where there was less asphalt. I now live in the Texas Hill Country in Kerrville. Deer stroll down my street...and they have the right-of-way. Don't wait for peace.