Thank you for your comment Mary! Yes, I think "cherishing" and "intimacy" are powerful keys to leadership. They open the door to the three prongs of Simple Encouragement® ~ "Speaking life to potential, healing, to pain, and light to darkness". You (and others) may enjoy my brief article titled "Cherish" over at my website. It is the January 9, 2010 post. It's a blessing that someone treated you in a "confident, authentic, idealistic, 'can do', and human" way. That likely makes you a confident, authentic, idealistic, humane person with a "can do" attitude! :)