Don't Just Plan To Write - Write.

Work Did Bestow Dignity, Status, Meaning. Wasn't That Why People Dreaded Unemployment, Why Some Men Found Retirement So Traumatic?

It's Easy To Get A Reputation For Wisdom. It's Only Necessary To Live Long, Speak Little And Do Less.

Children Live In Occupied Territory. The Brave And The Foolhardy Openly Rebel Against Authority, Whether Harsh Or Benign. But Most Tread Warily, Outwardly Accommodating Themselves To Alien Mores And Edicts While Living In Secret Their Iconoclastic And Subversive Lives.

A Letter Is Paradoxically The Most Revealing And The Most Deceptive Of Confessional Revelations. We All Have Our Inconsistencies, Prejudices, Irrationalities Which, Although Strongly Felt At The Time, May Be Transitory. A Letter Captures The Mood Of The Moment. The Transitory Becomes Immutably Fixed, Part Of The Evidence For The Prosecution Or The Defence.

Ambition, If It Were To Be Savored, Let Alone Achieved, Had To Be Rooted In Possibility.