"What's the point of going half or two-thirds of the way? To risk a great happiness, you have to risk a great sorrow. Otherwise you go down the drain of illusion." - August 29, 1988 interview with Christopher Zenowich for the Chicago Tribune

This quote by author Frederick Exley ("A Fans' Notes"), has moved me greatly.  In one month, I will be 50.  I hope for the strength to be able to risk, in order to achieve the happiness..the true, inner happiness, that has eluded me for so long, this year, and every year I live thereafter.

"If I am only for myself, what of me?

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

If not now...when?"

Gene