An Old Cowboy’s Philosophy of Life
Reading from a famous Worming book of yesteryear I ran across a most interesting philosophy of life. A few snippets I took from the chapter.
· Time is arbitrary, age is dependent, if and but, are not in my vocabulary and I know not their meaning.
· Age? Anyone passing over the divide in Wyoming short of the century mark must go by accident or some ancestral ailment passed down through the ages from one of Noah’s sons.
· Tomorrow is the best day on the calendar; yesterdays are history and irretrievable.
· The term optimist has been applied to me and aptly, and I am this kind. If a pool of water twenty feet deep, with a rock weighting a ton resting on my chest, I would be thankful it didn’t weigh two tons.
His Book & Legacy
Good stuff and all from Charles A. Guernsey from his book, Wyoming Cowboy Days. Guernsey has a town, reservoir, and a state park named after him.
The book, published in 1936 is hard to find, although there is a more recent redo of it. Good Stuff, maybe we should all live a bit more optimistic, like Mr. Guernsey.
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| Guernsey State Park |
