What I've learned in 60 years...

Gas is expensive, sometimes hurts, can be embarrassing, but life is basically a gas..

Children are good for the heart...

People are genuinely nice - and tons do nice things for little, if any, reason.

Wrinkles are the wonderful river of yesteryear..

Children are nice to old folks, old folks are nice to younger ones - and those in-between are also nice to each (and vice versa)..

Life is all about experiences with other folks... school, work, friendship, recreation - and no matter how little the time spent - or how long spent, everlasting bonds are formed - and that person, those people are special in one's life.

Friends relate stories long forgotten - thus, kinda sorta enabling us to live/do it allover again.

Family is family, growth is wonderful, fitting in is a gimme - loss is horrific.

Animals are not "lower creatures" and I'm thankful to sit back and learn from them. Lessons in loyalty, and how it doesn't take a lot to simply have fun.

Being a teammate is a blessing with frequent smile reward.

People are somehow better looking, healthier in smile.

Smiles and gas - two natural things that make us go. We receive smiles from others we don't even know - we receive smiles in every day passing of those we're around.. and maybe the best are from those we've not seen in awhile - and again, yesteryear is conjured up again.

Every four years, there are six months within it's about you/me. Blessed are the three and one-half years in there that it's about "us".

Those gone are never really gone.

Passion is wonderful, worthwhile, can be frustrating, we lose, we win - but a life without it is unimaginable.

I, you, we - are not perfect. "Ugly" can be said, written, a wrongful act/action. Like a flesh wound, it's one day "healed over" with a baby scar to serve as a reminder "Victor, don't be an idiot again."

For 58 years, I had no idea the best feel of my life would be when those two little arms from four feet beneath reached up to me in unison.

Facebook is a wonderful quilt of one's life and I'm very thankful for it.

Diapers. Sight. Crawl. Walk. Run. Three-wheels. Two wheels. School. Four wheels. Work. Relationship. Marriage. Family growth. Memories. Slowing down a bit, albeit with a youthful brain. Retirement (one day).. perhaps all wrapped up by diapers again.

Life's a gas. Smile.

Love, Victurd.