I've cheated death more times than I can remember. Fast cars and bikes, drugs and alcohol, and two packs a day. Storms at sea, working as a roofer, and everyday chances and challenges that shadowed me.
Some say God won't give you more than you can handle, and when your time arrives to leave this life, nothing can stop it.
Over the years, I've been fortunate enough to write many stories and sentiments that one day will either be discovered or lost for generations when a distant friend or relative will find them and read about life far back into the past.
This brings to mind the life of discovery my grandparents lived when electricity and the telephone made life easier. Running water and indoor plumbing were only affordable for the well-off, and Henry Ford started something that would never end. Theirs was a new life with challenges and chances they were willing to take to make this a better place to live.
Moving decades into the future, writers like me will be considered odd, outside the box, and maybe a little crazy, and they'd be right.
I don't care about the future because it doesn't belong to me. I was given a certain amount of time to try and tell stories I found deep in my mind and my heart and share them with anyone who would read them today or a hundred years from now.
I believe I was given a silent gift that hopefully reaches those who feel the way I do about lessons learned, chances and challenges, and jumping straight out of the box.
Mike 2024
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