Poverty's Potential For Character Building

Well. There Was Noting To Be Done For It. Things Had Happened As They Did, Time's Arrow Had Yet To Be Reversed By Humans, Done Was Done. If A Man Spent His Life Looking Over His Shoulder At Every Possible Branching Of His Path He Could Have Taken, He Would Never Accomplish Anything. One Must Learn From History So As Not To Repeat It, But One Must Not Waste One's Energy Or Time Worrying About What Might Have Been. Sorry . . . But People Die Every Day And The Galaxy Continues On Quite Well Without Them. Consider Yourself Lucky You Are One Of Those As Yet Unselected By The Fates.

When They'd Been On The Run, With Death Maybe Lying In Wait Around Any Corner, They Had Never Been More Alive. When Each Day Might Be Your Last, It Made A Big Difference. You Couldn't Maintain That State Forever, Of Course; The Stress Would Eat You Alive, But Putting Yourself At Risk Did Bring Out Your Best-or Your Worst

We Have Focused Only On The Negatives, And Not Enough On Incredible Stories Of The Human Spirit And Of Rebirth And Rebuilding. That's Equally Important As The Tragedy.

I'm So Hard On Myself. I Play These Sketches In My Computer For Friends And They Say 'gee Whiz, The Vocal's Beautiful.' I Hear, 'it Needs To Be Better.'

I'm No Spring Chicken. The Same Arthritis That Ate Up My Left Hip That Finally Got Replaced Hasn't Stopped There... And Touring Is A Lot Of Work. I'm Impressed When I See People Like Eric Clapton Out There. Gee Whiz, Eric, Give Me A Break! I Know It's Gotta Hurt Somewhere.