On that basis we can help devise feasible and viable strategies to get from one to the other, and contribute to guiding the organizations on whose boards we sit into a successful and sustainable future - and to do the job we have been hired to do.
He was silent for a moment, and then he turned toward me and said, "We sat in the coffeehouses, late into the night, and discussed the world.
"It was a pretty amazing day," said Nadia Kardan, an English major and Yankees fan from Marlboro, N.J. "We sat in the dugout, went into the reporters' box and talked a lot about baseball".
Instead, we sat looking out into the spacious courtyard, with him chatting animatedly in Turkish and me in English, both of us laughing and smiling at whatever we could deduce from each other's hand movements.
Once we were encased, standing became impossible, so we sat down and scooted into our poses.
There we sat — three lard slicks — digging into red-and-white cardboard boxes, while screams from the riders on the Comet, the wooden roller coaster at a nearby amusement park, floated across the highway.
We sat around a hearth sunk into the center of the floor, and Mason spoke of their vision of creating examples of sustainable village life and agriculture, and the $150,000 cost of rethatching the roof.
As we sat there, a few minutes into politely discussing work and where we had studied, it was time to address the elephant in the room.
Later in the evening we sat on the sofa pressed into each other and I was playing with her braids when I said to her let's do the wishbone and make a wish.
And one night we sat down, popped the first DVD into the player and began watching.
