I have long thought about posting a blog, wondering if I had anything to say and thinking about its possible focus. I simply wish to comment upon life in a celebratory manner in the spirit of Kevin Welch’s line from “Life Down Here on Earth”:
There’s gonna be two dates on your tombstone
And all of your friends will read ’em
But all that’s gonna matter
is that little dashย between ’em.
I have to wonder if that will prove interesting to anyone but me, so for now I will keep this private to see what I think and to see if I actually will do posting on a regular basis. If I cannot convince myself that I have something to say, why bother anyone else with pointless blathering?
The second goal is to be honest and true to my beliefs. As I have always told my children: “You need to decide what your code of ethics is and then you need to live up to that code. On your last day, you need to be able to look in the mirror and like what you see (when measured against that code), and, since it isn’t given to us to know, in advance, when our last day will be, you had better be able to like what you see in that mirror on every single day.”
