When a man has four children, and when those children have known a measure of freedom in both city and country, and when the man suddenly awakens to the fact that it is far easier to build the sound body than the sound mind, and when he looks about him for guidance in mind-building and sees so many bidding him to go this way and that by all sorts of straight and narrow roads, then it comes as a great relief to discover that there is a Mind of the Race based on wide and long experience, which Mind of the Race is stored up in Literature....so far so good?
Then comes the realization that literature is vast concerning thought and intelligence and that which is merely emotional. How then may man find the first, enjoy the latter not fall into narrow divisions as age progresses and interests change? By nurturing new friendships, embracing tested and true old friendships and keeping an open mind to the hopes and dreams of all mankind.
Friendships may be summed up for this writer as "western life." Not just the old west of frontier days, but including high ideals which benefit mankind, our family and nourish our mind and heart. Now you may explore some of the influences in this writers life and how people, places and events hopefully prepared him for life after death and enabled him to enjoy the "small things" of our short existence on mother earth.
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