My Brother the Car Horn
Life is about attitude and timing. Two automotive stories illustrate the point.
Eternal truth lurks in strange places. One of them is Jerry Jeff Walker’s country ballad, “Singin’ the Dinosaur Blues.” The Gypsy Songman concludes life is mostly attitude and timing. My kid brother, Jack, is a devotee of the principle.
Jack has always made the most of any situation. If I quit midway through a marathon, he’d be first to tell the world I completed a half-marathon. But it’s more than that. Two specific examples, one from childhood and another from adulthood, show the consistency of his positive attitude, whatever...