While it is certainly nice, it is also humbling.
I seriously doubt that you could find anyone from
BITD that will tell you that I was about ego. When I produced first
STRATEGIC REVIEW, then
LITTLE WARS and
THE DRAGON, and finally
ADVENTURE GAMING, I could not have cared less about prosleytizing or brainwashing or shaping opinion. Really...
My greatest pleasure was in thinking that I was reaching into how many thousands of skulls and massaging that grey matter. I didn't care if you thought like me, I only cared that you
thought. Kind of why I went back into being a teacher at this late stage in life.
It is wonderful to hear that I gave people hours of enjoyment, I can't lie about that.
It's kind of like my involvement with
FISHING HAS NO BOUNDARIES, the beneficiary of
grodog's bid on the Satchel,
ExTSR's support of his local chapter and
obiter's magnanimous gesture. I don't do it so I have something "good" on my resume. I do it for the rush I get when I see someone with a disability get onto a boat for the first time, leaving solid earth behind, knowing that I helped facilitate it.
That organization just honored and humbled me me last weekend by naming me Nat'l Volunteer of the Year. Most likely because of the video I made two years ago, and an article I recently had published. (If you can, pick up a copy of
NORTH AMERICAN FISHERMAN, Feb. 2006, or go to their website--[url]
http://www.fishingclub.com/home[/url; their you will find my motivation on pg 73.) They hadn't heard of my fund-raising efforts through this group yet.
Which brings me to one more thing. Go to [url]
http://www.fhnbcinti.com/index.html[/url]
or [url]
http://www.fhnbinc.org/[/url].
If you would like to be a part of this, find a chapter near you and call them up--tell 'em Tim from Cincy sent you. No chapter nearby? No problem; you can support us with $$$- I will accept all donations. This is the only cause that I have been a shameless beggar in service of.
