The capacity of the human mind for learning and personal growth greatly exceeds
that which I would have deemed plausible in my early years The purpose of this memoir is to open the window
of my life in the hope that readers may find parts useful in achieving a fuller measure of their own capacities,
to attain worthy goals on behalf of self and others, in the certain belief that happiness
and understanding uplift the human spirit, contributing to the base for a full and happy life.
I look back through the years of my life from the vantage point of now being in my 90th year.
I look back in order to see forward.
Hindsight informed me of several primary individual lifetime learnings
which might be useful to others, especially those who desire to expand
the remarkable individual capacities granted us when we seek beyond self the greater common good.
He concluded with, Mother will be calling us to dinner.
Time to get back.
We never again discussed the topic, still fresh and off recurring in my mind now, nearly 80 years later.
The second cornerstone was that of this postcard
that my mother had written just prior to her death at age 47 when I was just 15 years old.
She wrote, My son, the 15 years of my life which you have shared have been such glorious once.
How I have loved them.
You are so fine and unselfish.
You have given me such love and consideration.
I have known no joy which could equal that of your companionship.