I did’nt know that I knew!

I’ve really enjoyed all of this immensely. I had my first TSM at the age of five. My father abandoned his family when I was four and my mother was pregnant with my youngest brother (there are four of us in total). I was hurt to the core and wasted much time trying to figure out why he had left us. Then one day I decided to find a new “DAD” who would be perfect for my mom and us boys. I knew I had to work on what it meant to me what makes a good father in order to get this right the first time so I spent the next few days observing the good families that we knew in our part of Corvalis, Oregon. At the same time I was scoping-out likely “DAD”s around the university as that is where the possible dads with the best possible futures would be found. After some time and several candidates were ruled-out I met Ed Lent quite by accident when I crashed into him while running home for lunch one day. He took me inside his small apt. and nursed my bloody hands and knee and we talked a bit. I then visited him three more times that week to get to know him a little. I deemed him to be the one but I couldn’t come up with a plan to play cupid in regards to Ed and my mom until I saw his archery equipment in his carport. I stole his bow and quiver of arrows and walked from his place to mine all the while launching arrows to lead him to my mom at the exact time dinner would be ready. You see, my mom is a great cook and no-one can resist one of her home cooked meals. Well, to make a long story—IT WORKED! Within a year we were moving to California AS A FAMILY to his first (and only) job he ever had (he still does it to this day) as an Astro-physicist and to our first home as a family.

I have been experiencing TSM’s ever sense. I have one right now that I came up with last night while discussing some of our society issues with Charles Denney (whom I recently brought into our ranks) that you might want to hear, though I don’t believe this is the proper format for it due to it’s sensative nature. Get back to me on my gmail about this and I will relay it to you gladly.

I have always shunned authority when it came to my decisions in life and rely on myself as a “self-leader” to this day. The essence of what is has always been my focus as I have always been able to SEE the essence of people, things, events and… whatever for as long as I can remember and because of these things I have always excelled in things I deemed important, interesting and/or necessary.

I believe I have a pretty good idea of where my FNE lies but am not sure exactly what that might mean yet, though I am sure that it is a vital part of what YOU and the Society are striving to accomplish. I sincerely look forward to the day that we start to put together some amazing puzzle pictures together to reach our goals sooner rather than later though without rushing; if something is worth doing it “must” be done right or don’t even bother, so no rushing, right?

Love,

Gordon