Sage advice that i Iearned this morning on my run. We should not trouble with trouble. If there is trouble brewing somewhere, our reaction is to deal with it, go poke at it, investigate what is wrong. However, maybe sometimes the opposite is a better strategy. Leave trouble alone and don’t add fuel to the fire by stoking it. The more you pay attention to trouble to more you add fuel to the fire. A kin to drying to put a fire out with oxygen.
Guy
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