CAPISTRANO: HIGH FLIGHT

CAPISTRANO: HIGH FLIGHT: HIGH  FLIGHT Behold the cormorant in flight. It is a carnivore. Everything about it has been adapted over eons of time to fulfill i...

HIGH FLIGHT

HIGH  FLIGHT

Behold the cormorant in flight. It is a carnivore. Everything about it has been adapted over eons of time to fulfill its function of species propagation by feeding on fish. It is dominant in its chosen environment.

Search on line for stock photos of the Lockheed SR-70, Blackbird warplane and note the eerie similarities between the two machines, one of nature and the other of man’s creation, in flight.

Mach 3.2 at an altitude of 85,000 feet notwithstanding, the latter creation proved to be transient. The Lockheed was retired in 1998. But the bird in the photo continues to soar.

Enter Michael Campbell, the chief protagonist in the novel, CAPISTRANO.

He has fulfilled the words of  the wartime pilot, G. Mcgee in his poem, High Flight.

Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things 

You have never dreamed of…

I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, nor even eagle flew-

Michael comes to dominate the environment he has chosen. He is the founder and driving force behind the success of Capistrano, the club for gentlemen in Metro Manila. And he wars with those who would unseat him from his throne.

His exploits model the musing of Alexander Pope when he wrote,

Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Michael is everyman, yes everyman, and then some. Join him, laugh with him and cry with him and come to A. Pope’s conclusion,

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan:

The proper study of mankind is man.

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CAPISTRANO: Who Is Driving The Bus?

CAPISTRANO: Who Is Driving The Bus?: In the dwindling gloom of early morning, the dashboard of a school bus and the country road it will follow are seen. The predawn ...

Who Is Driving The Bus?

In the dwindling gloom of early morning, the dashboard of a school bus and the country road it will follow are seen. The predawn commencement of the scheduled pick up of students is about to begin. They will be, quite literally and figuratively, driven down their road to learning via this vehicle and others like it, throughout the world.

Only an ambulance has more miles of electrical wire and cable to activate their many safety lights than do these ubiquitous chrome yellow transporters of young people. They dot and define the landscape with the arrival of each, new fall season.

“Who is driving the bus?”, is a question that has been a part of the lexicon of business language for some time. And the people who manage people in business, are those to whom the question is posed. It is a metaphor for the setting of direction, of goals, and the routes or strategies that will be followed to achieve a punctual arrival or business success. 

To effectively “drive the bus” a manager, like his or her counterpart behind the wheel, must know the rules of the road, the societal or governmental regulations that apply. The manager must look to the wellbeing of those for whom there is a responsibility and all the while, maintain order among those whose agendas might differ from the direction that has been set.

Michael Campbell is a man who is driving such a bus. He knows enough, just enough, of what must be done to arrive at his destination. And the rest requires his common sense, his true grit, elements of personality that he has in abundance.

Come join Michael, in the novel, CAPISTRANO, and experience the ride of your life as he negotiates both the paved and the rocky roads to achieve his dream. 



CAPISTRANO is available at:
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