03/29/2024
Thoughts While Shaving
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Robert Hester, Founder of BladenOnline.comSometime as I grow older I do a lot of day-dreaming … Why this, why not that … Ever do that?…

What if my dad had given me a golf club and a ball and I had practiced daily for years … and what if I played in the Players Championship in Florida like the one that concluded yesterday (Monday)? And what if I had won yesterday’s match? Today, I would be strugglin’ trying to decide what to do with $3.6 million, or I could have finished 2nd and won only $2.18m. 3rd place paid a measly $1.38m…

Dang, another wrong turn … but come to think of it, where would I have played? We lived in Bladen County, in the 40s and 50s not a golf course in the county … Ahhh, the foolish moves we make…

It was a good tournament and so many young players, rich youngsters…

Just dreaming today, about being a millionaire … And many of us struggled for years with empty pockets … many still struggling, hard working folks … some of the folks I worked for over the years accused me of more dreaming than work … I must confess, I was a dreamer … guess I spent my life trying to stretch a dollar for a gallon of gas money … and a pound of hamburger meat and loaf of bread or a pan of biscuits. Still dreaming … And had I won, bet I would have lots of friends to help me spend my new found fortune … No such luck, but still dreaming…

Weather forecast for today … Sunny, with a high near 73. Mostly cloudy tonight, with a low near 51. Showers likely Wednesday with a high near 68. A 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms … increasing to 80% Wednesday night.

On a down note, Billy Ray Pait, longtime Bladen County Commissioner, passed away Sunday … Obit on Bladen Gaskins Funeral Home website … A good man…

“See all human behavior as one of two things: Either love or a call for love.” Marianne Williamson

“What do you do when there’s no nowhere to turn? You drive straight ahead.” Leslie Gordon

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” Dalai Lama

robert g hester
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