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What Matters Most

Where is the wisdom that is lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge that is lost in information?  CS Lewis wrote these words and they are as true today as they were then.  In a world so filled with information available to us at breakneck pace it is hard to imagine living a day where we were cutoff from it.  In a world where technology so freely gives us the tantalizing, the lucrative, the creative and the answers, I ask, where is the work?  One of my earliest memories of my own Father is being in the front yard while he and my uncle worked on a stock car that they were tuning up for the weekend race.  Meticulously he worked to achieve the best balance, if successful it meant a chance for the win, if not, it meant a tow home and trip back to the drawing board.  This was a simple hobby, but it was clear to me even as a child that this was an example of a man's quest for wisdom.  To know of something through his own study, to create out of chaos and to test his own determination w