Heavy s__t man!

I have been thinking, as many of you have, of all the hardships that Ken & Phil have gone through in their lives. In the paper today was this article. How appropriate "food for thought" is this?

What are your pivotal moments?

Written by Norma Engelberg.
Her facebook page is: Norma Engleberg CMC

People have their own ideas about what makes up a pivotal moment. Some of these are personal, some are national and some are global.

Personal moments could be the birth of a child, a marriage proposal, meeting a hero, even making a wrong turn. Each event in our lives, no matter how minor it might seem to others, has the potential to change everything.

For example, a long time ago I had a roommate who answered a wrong number phone call, talked to the strange man on the other end for about an hour, dated him for six months and ended up marrying him. It took her another year to figure out that he really was a “wrong number.”

One wonders how different both of our lives might have been if I had answered the phone. But then again, “wrong numbers” are everywhere and you don’t even need a phone to find them.

In 10th grade I brought to school a book on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress Bomber that carried the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to Hiroshima. Evidently one of the 19 boys in my chemistry class (there were 2 girls) didn’t think girls should be reading such material or maybe he just thought he was being funny. Anyway, the Neanderthal (I mean no disrespect to Neanderthals) snatched up my book and threw it out the third-story window.

That was a pivotal moment in my personal development --- it marked my first realization that some boys, and even some girls, don’t think people of the female persuasion should have brains.

Poet Robert Frost published “The Road not Taken” in 1915, lamenting the fact that we as individuals can take only one road at a time.

With that in mind, my questions to you are: “Where do you think your “road not taken” might have taken you? And “What were your pivotal moments – the moments that changed everything for you?”