Human Need to Tell a Story

I happened to tune into an interview of the current Queen of Jordan wgere the topic was her involvement with contemporary modes of communication. When asked why, I thought she gave a very insightful answer. She said that we humans all have a deep-seated need to tell a story and this was her way.

I have two daughters and whenever we get together I bore them and their husbands to tears with all my thoughts and opinions. To makes matters worse these are too often repeated. To spare themselves and their loved ones this agony, they set up this blog to be as my outlet and maybe spare them
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I was fortunate to have lived these last almost 70 years exposed to varied circumstances. Having struggled in poverty during my early years with our lot improving slowly over the years to where I have retired in comfort. I have had an opportunity to break bread with people who barely had bread to break to people appearing in Fortune Magazines list of the wealthiest 800. I have lived in the US, Europe and Asia and visited North Africa. I have seen war from the vantage point of a civilian in WWII, a soldier in Vietnam and a TV spectator in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. I have had the chance to work as a laborer, a supervisor, an engineer, a manager and an executive.

My stories are comprised of recollections, thoughts, observations and opinions formed by this array of experiences and time. I am basically interested in man’s attempts to understand the heavens and the earth and the way he organizes and governs himself. The main point is to speak, pretending there is an audience and thus spare my family the endless dialog.