Words from a Wise Old Owl, but not a Garden Owl Today.

All that to say that I am way Off Topic today. I just re-read a note written to me by my Dad some time in the 1980's when I was struggling to get on my feet financially and otherwise. This is 2011 and my situation has changed....how????  So this morning I visited the Basement Archive of Very Important Stuff  ("VIS") that resides in my allegedly fireproof, waterproof & burglar-proof box.  I was in search of - something -  can't remember what because I got sidetracked by Dad's note lying on top of the VIS.  Every time I come across this note I remind myself that this may be a good day for a Reset or at least a Reaffirmation (not the kind one enters into following a personal bankruptcy) of my so-called business plan. I tend to get off course.  

Leonard E. White, my father, was a lot smarter than I, despite having  completed only an elementary school education in a 1-room country school and to the best of my knowledge, only a couple years of high school at Leadwood, Missouri, some distance from his home town.  The need to go out into the world and make a living has wreaked havoc on the higher education of many generations of  our nation's young people, has it not?  So off to the big city he moved and found work, then attended evening classes at  McKinley High School in South St. Louis. Somewhere along the way he completed a course in Penmanship.  That is something that would have benefitted the rest of his family, and I am not talking about only the older generations. Having taught myself to type while in 3rd grade, by the time I began my Freshman year at Cleveland High School a teacher threatened to flunk me if I ever had the nerve to submit anything other than typewritten work in her class.  Oh dear, did I digress again? 

Although part of the note refers to a job I never got, despite having worked at the same company in the 1960's,  I feel that Dad really didn't want me back at that place anyway.  Reading between the lines is one of my skills!  Nevertheless, he spoke encouragingly, regardless of how misplaced my aspirations may have been...were.

OK, here it is:

     “Suggest you work on the theory of seeing the Bear Thing
       all the way through. Let come what may. 
       Expect things to Work Out and they will.    

       Don’t push for the Laclede Job. I feel that they will
       take more time. Why I don’t know.
       You will probably get it.

       Keep eggs in more than one basket and Prosper. ”


Now I am off to plan my future Marilin's Bears, make a few Bags and keep the faith that Spring 2001   2011 WILL ARRIVE and produce more Blooms...and  maybe I shall have some lunch.  Talk to you Next Time.