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I live in Tucson ,Az, with my Dog Petie ..he is in my picture with me. I have one son who is happily married ,living in NJ. I have never done a mypage before so this will be short for now ...hopefully if I like this format I will continue to add information as I go along Just something I believe in : "After centuries of being pounded with the doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal, men have accepted it in the only way it could be accepted. By Seeking self-esteem through others. By living second hand. And it has opened the way for every kind of horror. It has become the dreadful form of Selflessness which as truly selfish man couldn't have conceived. And now to cure a world perishing from selflessness, we're asked to destroy the self. Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire. He'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He is not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-handers delusion---prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: " This is what I wanted because I wanted it , not because it made my neighbors gape at me ". Then he wonders why he is unhappy. Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things that are Sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing. But now we are taught to throw everything within us into the public light and common pawing. To seek joy in meeting halls. We haven't even got a word for the quality I mean-----for the self-sufficiency of man's spirit. It is difficult to call it selfishness or egoism, the words have been perverted. I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once --and it is the quality I respect in men. I choose my friends by that . Now I know what it is. A self-sufficient ego. ONLY THING THAT WILL DO