Comments on: The Long Road

By: Ron Snyder

Ron Snyder — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:52:44 +0000

Thanks Curtis,

Think I will try the Midway if time permits.

By: bc

bc — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:20:51 +0000

Nice piece of work, Lex. Pulled some heartstrings during the read. Freshly separated from Dash One, I drove myself from SD to Knife and Fork school in PNCLA. Dad had made a trip to Tampa and we made the drive back west together (home to Phoenix for him, North Island for first LDO ENS gig for me). He and I had let time, distance and poor choices get between us and it was an interesting ride out. We worked to heal some wounds, letting the Texas miles work their magic on us. Can only imagine similar father/son rides a hundred or so years ago on horseback. The Texas air must surely be full of the unspoken thoughts of those who cross her expanse. Will never forget the feeling of looking over at Pops, asleep against the passenger door, as I completed my leg of the night drive with the sun rising behind me, coming up in the rear view mirror. Darkness still ahead, a new dawn behind, and me thinking about precious time wasted on the petty resentments of immaturity.

Thanks.

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:52:23 +0000

Beautiful… and thanks. I relate to that sort of drive in more than one way, seeing as how two of my sons and I have made the same sort of trip, but not to the same destination. Still and even: it resonates.

Thanks again.

By: b2

b2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:38:53 +0000

Thanks for that Lex! Something for all of us in that. So fast it goes by.

By: Wilko

Wilko — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:33:42 +0000

BZ Lex. You’ve done well in passing the baton. Slapped firmly into the runner’s hand. Confirmation that it’s in his grasp and now SNO is accelerating into his leg of the race.

By: Jim Shawley

Jim Shawley — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:13:57 +0000

Here I sit in Medieval History 101 class, totally unable to hear, and my glasses too are fogged up. I am old. I reminisce myself. But this essay. This one, cuts to the heart.

Fair winds and following seas, Captain Lex. And Godspeed to SNO. May he fill his father’s shoes.