A contributor to the Alamosa News brings in a different aspect of “lifelong learning…”
Reminds me of an assignment I had when the editor, F.G. “Doc” Kirby, told me to interview a couple who had been wed for more than 55 years. I was going through a bitter divorce and he thought I could learn from them.
To him, every day was an opportunity to learn something new through experience. Doc was a great proponent of lifelong learning. I learned that when we were typing copy on wire service fanfold paper and sending it to the back to have someone else type it in and set it for printing.
I had written about a government meeting I had attended and did so in great detail, since the discussion seemed to be important to the public.
Doc, who stood more than six feet tall, put one end under his toe and stretched the copy upwards. It was longer than he was tall.
“Keerist! This is bigger than I am. Cut it down,” he said. “It should not be any taller than you are.”
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