A Career Spanning 76 Years.

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As most of you know, news commentator Paul Harvey recently died. He started his broadcasting career at age 14; a time when commercial broadcasting was about the same age he was. Imagine what could be accomplished if more people could dedicate 76 years to the field they love? I understand that the people who can do this are the exception, I know for myself, I would have loved to have been able to spend that many years working in the careers I've loved. But exceptions are the stuff of exceptional people. While most of us spend our lives filling seats in the theater of the "average", there are those who refuse to buy a ticket. While the rest of us consider 40 years a "career", they consider a mere 4 decades "off to a good start". Where would science, physics, art, or even simpler things like the work of gifted artisans and craftsmen be if people in them practiced their craft for three quarters of a century. Physicists who actually studied under Einstien, still working out the mysteries of astonomical and subatomic matter and energy? The apprentices of Shakespeare, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marconi and Tesla just coming to the end of their careers. 76 years is a long time to devote to a passion. If more people could just be that resilient and innovative, where would our world be today? and tomorrow.