Opening Remarks

Welcome to Parker Horton's Place; a haven for introspection and thoughts on life, business, a quest for happiness or just peace and how much do my Shibas know that they are not telling me? I believe that we contain all of the answers we seek.  Finding a path to the answers is the challenge.  I use a few techniques that we will explore here at Parker Horton's Place.

Through this site you'll gain some insight to the daily life around here.  This is where I find those answers, in the everyday activities of life.   I'll share my techniques of knowledge seeking, answer quest, inner thought, free range thinking and strategic thinking.  See my approach to finding answers to complex problems in simple activities.  I'll take you through my discoveries each day and how they came about.

Sometimes I may get stuck and ask for your help to get things back on track.  I ask for help quite frequently.  You'll get daily doses of Shiba wisdom including pictures.  They really are a source of peace, stability, focus, breakthrough thoughts, love and amusement.  You will see a lot of them as I figure out how to use this technology.

I owe a great deal of gratitude to the books I've read over the years and conversations I've had with a wide variety of people.  I will list the books that have contributed to my thinking as they come to mind.  I'd appreciate your contributions to the list.  Actually putting a link to the book itself is becoming easier in this age of e-books.  I have a couple of book ideas that have been lurking in the back of my mind that may actually happen as e-books.

I don't think of myself as some sort of guru.  I'm an ordinary guy (my wife thinks I have a gift for insight) struggling with everyday problems and looking for answers.  I've been through some tough times and seem to come out ok, so maybe I'm doing something right.  This blog is another attempt at finding answers, through sharing with you.  About 35 years ago I did some tutoring in accounting.  By sharing my insights and learning techniques I was able to discover how much I knew, and it surprised me.

I have been fortunate to have learned some techniques from some very talented people around the country.  I'd like to give special thanks to Bob Esperti and Renno Peterson for helping me to see the value of insight.  I haven't seen them in almost 8 years, but I think of them and their teachings daily.  Perhaps I've mixed some together and made a new cake, I'm not the one to make that call; you are.

I hope that you will come by often and if you discover an "a ha" moment you'll let me know.