History is fun. I have always liked history. I’ve been reading history since I was a little kid. My university undergraduate degree is in history (and among my professors were historian Stephen Ambrose, and former senator George McGovern; the latter was interesting, though I disagreed with his politics, and even told him so: I still got an A).
I have several thousand volumes of books in my house, and probably half of them are works on history. Even at that, I go to the local library weekly and pick up something interesting to read (I’ve been doing that pretty much regularly since I was 12; even when I was in the Air Force I’d go to the base libraries).
Reading is my greatest pleasure. I have an old sweatshirt that says: “So Many Books; so Little Time.”
“So Many Books; so Little Time.”
Amen. “I used to have a bucket list, now I have a f##kit list.”
And when we go, a little more of the torch goes out, because the torch is not being picked up and relit.