Starting Over

I found this clipping that my dad saved, he died last year. I was going through his stuff as an end of the year / era ritual. This newspaper clipping is an editorial that his father, my grandfather wrote. While I would have liked to have found something more directly attributed to my father, this seems appropriate for a broader view of things. I don't know specifically when it was written, I'm guessing mid 20th century. Grandpa Peterson was a pretty bright guy. Both he and my dad were men that attained a respectable degree of intellectual accomplishment. Grandpa was a chemist, Dad a judge.

Both of them spent their childhood summers working an Iowa farm - without mechanical aid, with horses and their own muscles. Farm people of that era were pretty straight forward, self reliant, no nonsense types. Excruciating work, with or against the forces of nature provides a very "real" world view. That sense of telling it like it is - comes through in Grandpa's editorial. While the specifics of what he's citing are no longer current, the concept certainly still is. Click on it, it's worth reading.

It's a good place to start my new blog.