Comment:
Deceased December 20, 2019
When we examine the lives of others, we find that most of them are married, most have a couple of kids, most live in houses in the suburbs, most drive cars, etc. How utterly conventional. Yet, absent a totalitarian system, the way we get to ‘most’ is by millions of individual, independent decisions. That so many have chosen to live this way is pretty good evidence that this kind of life ‘works’. And it has worked for me. This is not an apology for a very conventional life but rather an endorsement. I have had only one wife, for 43 years; I have three children – a son, Peter, in Iowa City and a son, Jeremy, in Bentonville. I have two grandchildren and one daughter-in-law in each of those cities. I have a daughter, Amy, in New York City who is married, pregnant and planning to move near us in Connecticut. I am very lucky in many other ways, too. If you remember me at all, it will not be for any talent. I was not good in sports, nor in drama, nor in music. This was, in retrospect, a blessing. I have several good friends with great talent who have spent their lives trying to exploit their particular skills. It’s a very hard road. For every successful author, musician or golfer, there are at least 10,000 who can’t pay the rent or the electric bill. Lacking talent, I chose the law and the good thing about law is that even an average lawyer, with some diligence, could make a pretty decent living [not so easy today, I hear.] My life has not been perfect, but it has been fun and much better than I could have imagined while growing up.
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