09-02-2026, 04:40 AM
taste all of life. Focusing on your simple childhood and the more genteel times in life must always resonate with you."
My Dad was in his 40s when I was born, deeply experienced, and when I was about 10, he told me, "You’re having the best time of your life, and you don’t even know it."
Sure enough, Dad was right.
When I answered the bell at age 52, I said, "Now, I really feel the need to go back home, float down the river, paddle the ponds and lakes, and fish for bass and shell crackers. It’s real peaceful, and remote from things like cell phones and M19s. So I did just that.
But now, once again into the fray, I find my heart and head are still floating and fishing.
Mr. McCleod may have arrived at the same junction and took the road less traveled.
My Dad was in his 40s when I was born, deeply experienced, and when I was about 10, he told me, "You’re having the best time of your life, and you don’t even know it."
Sure enough, Dad was right.
When I answered the bell at age 52, I said, "Now, I really feel the need to go back home, float down the river, paddle the ponds and lakes, and fish for bass and shell crackers. It’s real peaceful, and remote from things like cell phones and M19s. So I did just that.
But now, once again into the fray, I find my heart and head are still floating and fishing.
Mr. McCleod may have arrived at the same junction and took the road less traveled.
