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\u201cIf you always do what you\u2019ve always done, you\u2019ll always get what you\u2019ve always got.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n

\u00a0-Henry Ford<\/h4>\n

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Hard to argue with, isn\u2019t it? I think so, so I stopped trying.<\/p>\n

But not after decades of doing what I had always done, which was work for other people, at the place of their choosing, when they said so, doing what they needed, not what I<\/em> wanted. Guess I’m a a slow learner.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, I look back on those years and try to glean the good times from the bad, which is easy for there were many good times: getting my first promotion and raise, gaining responsibility and authority, being tasked with creating measurable improvements in the bottom line, developing an esprit de corps<\/em> with my team – and chasing the dream.\u00a0 It\u2019s a noble undertaking. It just didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

I threw a pity party for myself and no one came. I\u2019m not surprised. No one likes a whiner, nor should they. This country was founded against great odds, and we all carry the fruit of our forebears. If a ragtag gaggle of colonial militia could stand up against the greatest global military force on Earth \u2013 the British Empire, upon which the sun never set \u2013 then I could summon the mettle to move on. And I did.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s frightening. There\u2019s no safety net. No one to catch me if I fall.<\/p>\n

But fear is a tremendous motivator, one of the best. I can only imagine what some of the world\u2019s great engineers felt as they laid their plans for bridges and dams, tall buildings and subway systems. What if they failed? What if they underestimated the load that needed to be carried, and things fell apart? What if…?<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing they didn\u2019t really worry about \u201cwhat ifs\u201d, at least not to the point of being turned from their purpose. They weren’t persuaded by the nay-sayers, who I\u2019m sure were numerous and loud, throwing their rotten vegetables from the cheap seats, laughing at what they didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m guessing that the folks who dallied forth in building a better mousetrap must have been compelled<\/em> by the hecklers, and found a way to make soup from those vegetables \u2013 then sold it back to them in new wrappings. Why not? Everyone likes soup.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing that there\u2019s something inherent in us all that\u2019s willing to walk against the current, and not lift both our feet at once.\u00a0 There has to be, or we might well be walking around in animal skins and grunting at one another.<\/p>\n

So, why am I going on about this? On the internet? To strangers?\u00a0 Or \u2013 much worse \u2013 to no one? Am I screaming into the maw of an empty theater? Probably, but I\u2019m putting it out there nonetheless. Out of my mind and into the ether.<\/p>\n

Call it a germ. Or, better, a seed<\/em>. I\u2019m planting it in my mind and, if you\u2019re still here, you are a witness. Just like the first Cro-Magnon who observed a rock tumble down a hillside and thought of the wheel. Or similar to the the first human who saw lightning strike a tree and discovered a new warmth in fire.\u00a0 How about the first person to behold the power of hydraulic force in a rushing river and envisioned a gristmill to grind wheat and make flour for bread? A little dramatic? Perhaps, but this is the internet, and I can\u2019t feel the rotten vegetables. No soup for you!<\/em><\/p>\n

I want to tumble into the maw, and I\u2019d like to take you with me if you\u2019re game. This is an experimental attempt at this sort of thing, this internet writing thing. Is it a blog<\/em>? I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I know more about history than technology, and I\u2019m old enough to remember JFK\u2019s funeral procession (although I don\u2019t remember anything else for a long time after that.) [My mother grabbed me from my activities when I was three and made me watch the procession in front of a black and white television with transistors. She said, \u201cYou need to see this. You\u2019ll remember it for the rest of your life.\u201d She was right. I do. I remember seeing a boy my age in a pea coat saluting the horse-drawn caisson pulling a flag-draped casket through a crowd of people crying, and the woman wearing a veil over her face, standing strong. I remember it vividly.]<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s take this journey, together, into the maw. I hope we can find some common ground, and that we\u2019ll be richer because of it. Not money rich, but rich in connecting with one another, in this anonymous age of the World Wide Web<\/em>.\u00a0 I want to connect with you, even if I can\u2019t see<\/em> you. I want to believe you are there. I\u2019ll play upon this keyboard and let the words out. The words that flow like a river from my mind, and always have. I can no longer stifle them at my post.<\/p>\n

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