DAY BY DAY People often ask me if I kept a diary.
I can’t say that I have, at least in a continued, serious manner. I did start such a day-by-day recording events in my exciting small town life style. I remember a time when I started such a project in a blue composition book. I realized that I was pretty much a hand-written account of the ways in which the weather forecasts had worked out in area.
One of my favorite writers of the time, was O. O. McIntyre who wrote a daily column in the nearby Roanoke Va “Times and World-News”. The name of his column – always on the “Editorial” page - was “New York. Day-by Day” . He wrote about anything he found to be of interest or concern him. I read him and, although I was not, of course, aware that it must have happened that way until many years later. I switch from the “Diary” format - one the called a “Journal” I have always felt most comfortable there because it allowed me room in which I could report and comment.
It is a good thing for any and all of us to think back over the paths we have traveled. On in rare cases do we meet with genuine self-made men and woman. I have a score of people who have helped me along the way. I will never be about to say sufficient to express my gratitude.
The proper way to repay the is to make sure your present path allows time for you to pause long enough to share the fruits of some of the blessing you have known.
I never knew O.O.Macintytre; never saw him; never talked with him. He was in New, York I was here in Virginia's Appalachian area. Through his words and example caused changes he never knew about at all in happning in far-off Virginia. So - a warning! Be careful - every day- in all that you think, say or do.
Somewhere...some one may be seeing you as a model of what they would hope to become.
Andrew McCaskey Sr amccsr@adelphia.net 12-16-06 [c369wds]
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