The Dude Abides

I recently, while relaxing with a small bowl of oxycodone, visited Netflix and snagged the brilliant Coen brothers' film, The Big Lebowski. It was persuasive enough to make me hit the reset button on personal life objectives. 

 if you have not seen it, this under-the-radar masterwork stars Jeff Bridges as a slacker stoner, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Ben Gazzara, a young Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the under-rated David Huddleston (see Blazing Saddles), and John Turturro in the role of a lifetime.  Julianne Moore and Tara Reid are fall-on-the-floor funny, and gorgeous.  btw, Professor Remus Lupin of Harry Potter fame appears in a minor role.

The ultimate punch line is the movie's philosophical core, with Bridges as The Dude summarizing for Sam Elliott as The Stranger, "The Dude abides."  Win or lose. Up or down. Lucky or cursed.  Whatever the future holds, the Dude abides.

Here in Supply Chain Land, we have our own ups and downs, wins and losses, pleasant surprises and unexpected setbacks.  Our unknown future is sure to contain challenges, but be assured that, whatever emerges, this Dude, too, abides.

You think not?  Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!