Dear Mark Hamilton,
I was deeply impressed with your first meeting, especially the last two questions that you answered. I am 68 years old. I have been frustrated with the way society and our government has been over the past few years and I didn’t know the best way to fight it.
I made the wrong decision as I grew up. As a child I loved to landscape around my parent’s house. I would come home from school and take care of the lawn, my Mom’s flower beds, and the large vegetable garden in the backyard. Even on weekends I’d get up to take care of the plants that were starting to pop up in the garden before I would even think of playing with my friends. As I grew up, the apartments and houses that I rented, I would add to the landscape. I guess you could call that my Friday Night Essence. I loved landscaping! But, as I finished college, I became an Accountant, and have been for 40 years. I enjoyed creating spreadsheets and graphs to help the different departments in the company, but something was not quite right. Every now and then I would change jobs and go into sales for a while, and then back into accounting. I even became a manager of a chicken hatchery that had been closed for 2 years. I created a form that I used to evaluate the efficiency of all the hatches. Within a year they doubled the size of the hatchery. The President asked if he could use the form for all of their hatcheries nationwide. I was happy to respond “Yes”. Once again I went back into accounting.
I never seemed to find what I was comfortable with doing. Then, my wife of 25 years, passed away in my arms with cancer, 20 years ago. I lost the excitement and drive that I once had.
While watching the first meeting, I was thinking of writing to you and asking if the Neothink Society was really something that would pertain to me at this late stage in my life. Then I read your answer to the last question from the 85 year old gentleman. Thank you for posting that question and your answer. I would like to definitely get involved in some way with one of the groups.
Gordon Kollenborn
