THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY SIT AND WAIT
I wish I could volunteer to put my aged shoulder to the wheel per our President’s wish and our nation’s good.
You may have missed President Trump’s challenge of Wednesday last for us to protect American geniuses. In case you missed the call made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he spoke first of protecting Elon Musk, visionary founder of cutting edge Tesla Motors and Space X.
“I was worried about him [Musk], because he’s one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our geniuses. You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison, and we have to protect all of these people that came up with, originally, the lightbulb, and the wheel and all of these things.”
I certainly admire Mr. Musk, and wish him well. But he may not want or need my vote of confidence. Truth is, I sold my 100 shares of Tesla stock before it tripled in value. My bad.
And there’s nothing I’d like better than to protect Thomas Edison, but I’m afraid he died two years before I was born, so that’s a no. As for the wheel thing, though I hate to admit it, I don’t Time Travel well. The very thought of boarding a time machine and being shot back 5,500 years to ancient Mesopotamia to protect someone whose name I do not know seems a fool’s errand to me. Besides, I simply lack the stamina to travel such a distance…or is it time?
Perhaps I can compensate for my shortcomings by taking on a less onerous task closer to home and please the scholarly community while I complete my life’s work. Yep, Bigtfoot has been spotted again, in the state of Washington. I can make it that far and finish my long-in-the-writing doctoral dissertation : “Sasquatch Is a Distant New World Relation to the Yeti of the Himalayas.” All I need to do is collect a few stool samples for DNA comparison.
That done, know that I’ll be sitting close to the phone, awaiting Stockholm’s call. Confession. I’ve already written my acceptance speech.