A wise mentor’s bicycle wheel analogy reveals how core values anchor us amid life’s chaos, offering profound insights and unexpected clarity

Andrii Dankovych stares out his window toward the east where the fighting is. He contemplates his future. And whether his country will survive. Some news sources claim his country’s resources are gone. And it’s only a matter of time before the white flag is waved. We have emailed; me from my Missouri home; he, from his home in Western Ukraine. We have never met, but he is an artist and the illustrator of my three books. He has been the go-to-guy for Sugar Grove publishing, of