Lessons in the Key of Life

My father, the late John Wallace Brown, was a hard working man. As a young boy growing up it was not uncommon for my father to work two or three jobs just to pay the bills, keep food on the table, and a roof over his little family’s head. Even in his later years he still went to work in a local hometown restaurant, and after he finished working at his job, he would go to work in his own lawn care business which he had for several years. In addition to the lesson on the value of hard work, my father taught his four children another valuable life lesson, and that is to “Just stay focused!”

My father used to say this all the time, and I must admit that my brother, sisters, and I probably did not give his counsel the consideration that it deserved.