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What’s the Problem . . . Really?

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What’s the Problem . . . Really? The trick is not to try and solve a problem before you know what it is.   Spark – Circ de Soleil - John U. Bacon, Lyn Heward  Several years ago my family volunteered to help out in the community.   Our task was the get rid of some of the graffiti in the area and make our neighborhood look better.   As we sanded and painted and worked at getting the stuff off, it took us nearly the entire day.   At the end, the words just came through our efforts again like we had done nothing.   I didn’t understand it.   WE were doing our best!   We had even purchased extra grade quality of tools to make sure it was a good job.   It didn’t work.   Then the supervisor came by to check up on us.   “Do you realize that this wall is going to be demolished?”    “Uh, no.”  “They are going to put a gate here.”    He then directed us to another area where the paint went on smoothly and the who...