It is a privilege to have a front row seat in people’s lives, and to help them with the work of decision making and exercising good judgement. The quote sounds like Mark Twain but it is actually by Philip Babel, my middle school History teacher from San Antonio several decades past. It speaks to the sense of responsibility I feel for the people who trust us to help them not just with their dollars, but also with the myriad personal stuff in their lives that not everyone else gets to see. Even though I’m proud to be the office comedian, the best compliment I ever received was being called a “marathon listener.”