It's amazing how we touch each other's lives yet don't know how profoundly sometimes.
I'm interested in hearing who changed your life and how it all came about. Could be a good or bad but a person who influenced who you have become.
I'm looking for something beyond the obvious spouse, lover, or parents here. But all are welcome to share.
From the living to the dead there have been many and many more there very well may be.
1)There was my grandfather-from the start and even now, though he is gone a number of years, his influences still resonate in my daily life.
2)Then of course there was
Lou Miucci who touched upon my life at a particularly important time.
3)Thomas Radolinski-he was a gym teacher-mainly for swimming, I just wanted to mention him-we shared a towel once (it's a long story).
4)That preacher who gave a sermon on St.Francis of Assisi-that created a turn in my life. Toyed briefly with going into the ministry.
5)George Schwab-After I had done the college thing, I geared up for a few extra history classes and went up to City College. Schwab pushed my interest into ancient history a little deeper. More on George-
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6)No list would be complete without Ernest Hemingway-I fell fully in love with writing thanks to him (although my style is different).
7)Speaking of writers, there was this man who used t write for Variety-a weekly trade for the entertainment industry-by the name of Wolfe Kaufman. I was for some reason reading his pieces on entertainment over in Europe back in the late 1960s to around 1970 when he died. Kaufman was born in Europe, came to the States and then while maintaining U.S. citizenship returned to work in Europe (Paris to be exact). His attachment to living life to the fullest let me know that there was always opportunity.
8)People in my day to day life-Just about everyone touchs me and molds my thinking, even if only for a fraction of a second, each and every day.
9)Nicholas Zeleznak (spelling-?)On a few of my trips back and forth to college in Wisconsin, I would take a stretch of ride on a Greyhound bus. Zeleznak was a driver from Pittsburgh, PA to some point either west or east. Anyway, I fell in love with Greyhound (the bus company) at that point and became determined to get a job with them-which I did, selling tickets and disbursing directional information-which kept food on my table and a roof over my head for several years before I ventured into accounting.
10)Several others who I have not listed here; however, I have mentioned them at various times both here on this (LPSG) board and others.