Start of Something Good...

Philip C. Smith said...
I am absolutely delighted that Jack has started this 'blog'! It's beyond time for us to use this extraordinary medium to stay in touch. Personally, I'm on the bloody net from 5AM til around 6PM doing my work so it's like tying a shoelace for me to use the thing.It's been 46 years, guys, that we left each other to start this journey; there have GOT TO BE some fantastic, sad, warm, desolating, uplifting stories that we can share. Anybody ever read Wallace Stegner's last book (I think?) 'Crossing to Safety'? It's all about how two college friends manage their lives, one well, one not so well. One of the themes in the book is that breeding, money and position do NOT guarantee success in life. The comes, if at all, from some other reservoir of values. Taft, and college, taught me a lot of those values; my family some and experience the rest and I haven't turned out too badly, though I do have some deep psychic scars that, someday, I'll be able to share.As for me, it hasn't been all good, and nor should it have been or I would never have learned anything. It's a tough one, but it is through failures (hopefully not lethal) that people learn. Taft gave me a big boost up. I just wish I had been more mature to appreciate the value of what was on offer.Anyway, enough 'boosting' for what Jacks gone and done all on his own. I promise to start posting some more interesting crap, but only if someone asks.Any takers?Philip