Jackson Brown - Live and Learn and Pass It On, Volume III: People Ages 7 to 92 Share What Theyve Discovered about Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff

LIVE AND LEARN
AND PASS IT ON Volume IIIPeople ages 7 to 92 share what they've discovered
about life, love, and other good stuff Written and compiled by H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. RUTLEDGE HILL PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee Copyright 1997 by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Photographs by Bob Schatz are used by permission. Photographs by Jean-Claude Lejeune are used by permission.

All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Rutledge Hill Press, 211 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37219. Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn & Company, Ltd., 34 Nixon Road, Bolton, Ontario L7E 1W2.

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Jackson Brown, Jr. p. cm. ISBN 1-55853-472-5 (v. 3) 1. 2. 2.

Developmental psychologyMiscellanea. 3. Maturation (Psychology)Miscellanea. I. Brown, H. Jackson, 1940 .

HQ799.95.L55 1991 91-32132 158'.1dc20 CIP Printed in the United States of America 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 902 01 00 99 98 Contents E ncouraged by my invitation in the two previous volumes of Live and Learn and Pass It On, thousands of readers have written to me to share a lesson or two about what they've learned about life. And what a pleasure it is to read them. Upon discovering an unusually perceptive observation or witty suggestion, I feel like a carpenter who has received a gift of a sharp new saw or a well-balanced hammer. We all know the pleasure of working with new tools, whether we're building a bookcase or a life. The contributors to this book are all ages and from every economic and social background. They would not consider themselves philosophers or gurus.

And yet here, in a short sentence or two, they offer us worlds of wisdom. Oh, how I would like to meet each one personallyto pull up a chair at their kitchen table and linger over a cup of coffeeor maybe take them for a ride in the country in a covertible with the top down. I long to know more about them. I want to hear about their successes and setbacks, their dreams and disappointments; what they've learned to live with and what they've learned to live without. As you read these observations, you will get a glimpse now and then of lonely hearts and lost hopes. But overall, what comes through is a sense of cheerfulness, resolve, and the importance of keeping things in perspective.

A forty-two-year-old father writes, I've learned that a shoeshine box made by my eight-year-old son at Vacation Bible School is my most prized possession. That's as powerful a statement as you will ever read about priorities and what makes life worth living. The seventeenth-century English clergyman Thomas Fuller wrote, If you have knowledge, let others light their candle at it. Thanks to these 302 people who have shared their life's lessons with me, my candle now burns with a lively flame. I invite you to light yours from mine. H.J.B. H.J.B.

Tall Pine Lodge
Fernvale, Tennessee MY GRATEFUL THANKS to all who contributed to this collection of discoveries and insights: Anna Abraham, Janie Adams, DeAnn Adelman, Silvia Alba, Mary Allen, Diane Amadruto, Katarina Arguinzoni, Jeff Arney, Janice Austin, Bree Barton, Eileen Bassirl, Corinne Belsky, Jessica Berg, Rolanda Bertz, Jessica Bette, Laura Bogdas, Annie Borger, Linda Boyd, Joanne Bozue, Bill Brabbin, Alda Bradkoski, Carol Brandes, Antonio Bravo, Florence Brewis, Jasper Brewster, Dolores Brough, Betty Brown, Amy Brown, Jennifer Bruce, Mary Brunson, Marissa Bucci, Kay Burger, Therese Burke, Pat Bush, Elsa Campbell, Tom Candalino, Gerry Cantrell, Bea Carmody, Mel Cason, Megan Cassidy, Louise Cherry, Courtney Christopher, Sherry Cleaves, Shirley Clyburn, Michael Comprola, Joseph Connelly, Marie Cook, Suzanne Cook-Riddle, Christi Cotham, John Crawford, Brenda Crawley, Michelle Creason, Ann Crews, Timothy Cuff, Cali Cunningham, Alex Curio, Mary Cuthbert, Kathy Dalton, Nicole Darling, Angela Davies, Anne Davis, Sally Davis, Delbert Davis, David Debter, Lawrence Dikeman, Cathleen Donovan, Jennifer Draksler, Norma Duckett, Ruby Edwards, Don Eisenberg, Mary Elliott, Lorraine Failla, Melissa Ferrarese, Amie Fiedler, Virginia FitzSimmons, Sylvia Flowers, Darcy Fournier, Robert Fox, Rob Foxworthy, Carolyn Freeman, Corissa Frericks, Janelle Froelich, Christine Gardner, Ildiko Gaspar, William Gates, Jeannie George, Sam Goldsmith, Michelle Gomez, Dawn Goodrich, Mary Grabowski, Kara Green, Dennis Guadalupe, Renee Haines, Sylvia Hamilton, Alice Haney, Catherine Hardy, Walt Harper, Jeffrey Harrington, Dennis Harrington, Rita Harris, Holly Haukaas, Lois Hausner, Lisa Hay, Dorothy Hella, Krystal Henagan, Brenda Henry, Heidi Hildebrand, Chrystal Hinz, Bill Hockaday, Jane Holding, Berdyne Hoover, Kathleen Howell, Jacqueline Hudnell, Nikia Huffman, Jake Hughes, Scott Hummer, Holly Hutchins, Jennifer Johnson, Laurie Johnson, Lori Johnson, Lindsey Johnson, Ann Jolliffe, Wesley Jones, Courtney Judd, Michael Julien, Karen Karp, Lindsay Katal, A. Katin, Jenne Keller, Sandy Kenslow, Mark Kern, Shawn Kerstetter, Fatimah Khan, Kathryn Kiebler, Chelsey Knauer, Judith Kopec, Paul Kostansek, Susan Kratzenberg, Kristen Krugeinhard, Tracy Kundinger, Brenda Laird, Eden Langewis, Christopher Lawless, Evelina Lawrence, Angela Lechter, Rachel Lee, Alison Lipari, Lori Lipton, Robert Lott, Patricia Lukoschek, Wanda Lynn, Lynn Madden, Suzanne Mailloux, Jana Marine, Glenn Martin, Marion Martin, Meaghan Martin, Angela Maschari, Terry Masek, Shelley Mason, Kevin Masser, Katherine Massey, Marco Matute, Susan Mayer, Leah Mazar, Joseph McCue, Patrick McGlashan, Brant McKeever, Chalonne McLeod, Rebecca McMichael, Alline McNeil, Franklyn McWay, Sherry Meadows, Megan Meeker, Imy Menser, Kimberley Mentes, Alexis Michael, M.A. Moldenhauer, Sherwood Moran, Maureen Mosley, Julia Mullane, Phyllis Muller, Hilary Munn, Jennifer Murfin, Jill Murphy, Michelle Murphy, Kathy Nadason, Becky Newcomb, Ema Newcomb, Titi Nguyen, Kristina O'Brien, Misty O'Dell, Tess Oakes, Shelby Oberstein, Deborah Obrecht, Robin Osborne, Jamie Osman, Susan Osso, Kelley Paige, Ann Pate, Kimberly Peek, Candy Penner, Michelle Pennock, Wendy Pierret, Grace Piper, Kris Placencia, Claire Pocock, Sharon Popovich, Tom Porter, Laura Poulson, Chris Proffitt, Kaye Prouty, Vanessa Ray, Cynthia Read, Brian Rees, Jenny Rehbein, Cindy Reisinger, Liz Rice, Erika Rickard, Jennifer Ristic, Lynn Robards, Brian Robinson, Celeste Rodriguez, Brenda Roe, Chris Rogers, Patti Rosenswie, Tamara Ross, Carrie Rossetti, Spencer Royer Jr., Sheri Sarsfield, Steve Saunders, June Sawyer, James (Sam) Sawyer, Lacie Saxton, Amy Schaffer, Nora Schill, Carrol Schroyer, Janie Schuelka, Justin Seibel, Elise Selinger, Kevin Shaffer, Carla Shasteen, Ruby Shine, Stephanie Sicoia, Steve Siglar, Shannon Skroback, Dana Slocomb, Kerry Smith, Terri Smith, Lindsay Smith, Susan Soderquist, Kat Sproule, Lucille St. Pierre, Cecilia Stamas, Edwin Steinsapir, Jaime Stoddard, Elizabeth Stone, Leta Stratton, Brenda Streatch, Susan Stulen, Maria Stutzman, Teresa Summerville, Michelle Sumovich, Kara Svendsen, Angela Swann, Kelly Taney, Stephani Tennant, Ashley Thomas, David Thomas, Kris Thommesen, Janice Thompson, Betty Trimm, Ann Troy, Heather Tygrett, Joyce Van Deusen, Hollie Van Kirk, Karla Venis, Catherine Vodrey, Stephanie Vosmus, Lisa Vrana, Elizabeth Vukovitch, David Wacker, Janet Wasilewski, Libby Waterbury, Shirley Watts, Lori West, Carol Whiteley, Bobbie Whitlock, Eric Wicktor, Stefanie Wielkopolan, Cynthia Williams, Eva Williams, Claudia Wineke, Kari Winter, Avaril Woodward, Wayne Wyler, Janet Yeakley, Danielle Zarda, Hilary Zetlen, Molly Ziebell, and Catalina Zobel. Other Books by H.