I’m Grateful to be born in this time and Place
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I guess the accident of birth. I am so lucky to have been born into the class and the place I was born into. You can either be born to a poultry science professor family in Okalahoma where life is safe and comfortable or you could have been born a crack baby in the Lower East Side of New York.
I ended up coming out in the – for all of its faults and shortcomings Okalahoma was a good place for a kid to grow up and get their bearings etcetera. Then I guess… I don’t know. A lot of the people I run into, including Carol; people who have given me perspective on life including my parents, college professors…
I can remember a counselor when I was in this youth group in high school and it was a church youth group. Just the fact that he gave me responsibility and trust and I can just remember at that point in my life thinking, “Well, I can do stuff because people put your faith in you and you pull it off and it works out.”
So, events like that – I think the blessing of being born in the right place at the right time and then the opportunity to meet people who turned your life. Those things are… those are immeasurable I think.



