Life on the farm
My friend of nearly 24 years, Jerry O’Rourke, began blogging this week. That’s not quite true. He’s been an avid writer, columnist and internet pioneer most of his career, he’s been blogging probably for decades, so let me re-write that opening: he began using Wordpress this week.
As Jerry started getting comments to his blog, it reminded me of 1994, when we put our first commercial web site on the Internet and we were listed in Yahoo. As we started to get hits on the server, it was amazing and mystifying that people found our client’s site. Likewise, I’m sure it’s just as gratifying over a decade later, with millions of blogs, that someone takes the time to comment on what they read. But just like it was in 94, his writing is dead on and his topics are of interest.
His post Remembering Joe Todd reminds me about the important things in life. Hard work, giving someone a head start when they are young, letting them solve their own problems, even if it involves walking back to the barn for help, and taking time for the simple pleasure. Jerry’s post says it very well.
Jerry describes, near the end, that Joe Todd found time to have a slice of pie at the Wayne Cafe. If you live in rural America, you have your own Wayne Cafe. Stopping each day to enjoy the sweetest things life has to offer is just as important as the hard work
This is the beginning of Thanksgiving week. I’ll be thinking of Jerry and his mentor Joe Todd, when I have a piece of pie.
