Rich wrote those words in a scrapbook sixty years ago, not knowing the life that lay ahead of him and how many lives he will have touched by the time he was done.
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When I was about ten, my dad told me an old joke-slash-fable. I had a tendency to act rashly and without thinking (more than your average ten-year-old boy), and I think this was his way of getting a message across.
A young buffalo and an old buffalo are standing at the top of a hill, looking down at a field of cows. The young buffalo turns to the old buffalo and says,
"Let's run down there and [redacted] some of those cows."
The old buffalo turned to him and replied,
"Let's walk down there and [redacted] them all."
The message didn't stick but the nickname did, and he was "Old Buffalo" ever since.
I'm still prone to acting rashly and without thinking, so it's probably safe to say the story didn't work. But I don't think I'll ever be able to stand atop another hill and not think about him. So maybe it did.
A young buffalo and an old buffalo are standing at the top of a hill, looking down at a field of cows. The young buffalo turns to the old buffalo and says,
"Let's run down there and [redacted] some of those cows."
The old buffalo turned to him and replied,
"Let's walk down there and [redacted] them all."
The message didn't stick but the nickname did, and he was "Old Buffalo" ever since.
I'm still prone to acting rashly and without thinking, so it's probably safe to say the story didn't work. But I don't think I'll ever be able to stand atop another hill and not think about him. So maybe it did.