The bill collectors have my ‘real’ name, but my friends call me ‘Tom.” (Tommy Haynie) I was raised in Ft. Myers Florida and have spent the past 30 years as a professional firefighter for the City of Asheville, in North Carolina (a great place). I’m married with three fine ‘kids’ (two daughters and a son) each carving out their own admirable lives in Colorado, N Carolina, and California respectively.
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In my early twenties I drove long-distance as a truck driver, many miles/hours /days on the road. During that period out of frustration or boredom I began making notes on steno pads for private reference, still have them. I look back at that jumble of words in those notes and can tell you exactly where I was and what I was feeling thirty or so years ago, it is kinda neat – funny too what you can/will write when the plan is that no-one else will ever see them.
What I found was that through this simple effort of writing I could sort out many of the frustrations and confusion of the time. The scribbling became a release that allowed me room to make some clearer decisions, but the best part was that in the end - I just felt better about ‘stuff.’
No point with any of this – just trying to fill in some space about me (that always takes an effort), so I’ll leave it at this;
Every day we cross paths with any number of people – the qualities that we like of others we incorporate into our own way of thinking and personality - in good time, and when we feel good about all of that within us – we form character.
Its not complicated, our eyes are the portholes – if you can grasp that you certainly understand that you are that person peering outward, and it’s your life……… do it your way.
I’m just takin a few notes.
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