William Jackson

My autobiography begins like every single person who was ever born, from the cradle, and will end no differently. All else that falls within the two extremes is where we push the threshold, wherein lies luck, chance, fate, fortune, circumstance, coincidence, providence, etc. Sometimes a few of us achieve a defining moment to distinguish ourselves, but aside from completing the basics we come to call living life --- creating it, nurturing it, supporting it..., not much else lies in the purview of our essential obligation than to honor life for life's sake. I've never fathered a son or daughter, nor even married --- not even had a girlfriend. But seldom have I ever been alone. In this land with its 'huddled masses' seeking 'life', 'liberty' and 'pursuits of happiness', I've contravened the entire ideological mantra that set this Country into motion, not out of spite, but out of the relentless exceptions the entire world takes to it. I've watched it closely, been an astute observer --- without the distractions so many are beset with and have concluded simply one thing: nothing goes unnoticed in a finite world. People will continue to believe in the infinite by default. I see it through a different set of lenses. If not by Nature, and if that is not to be the most plausible source of God outside the context of where his existence has been framed for the past two thousand years, blame the contrition of our beliefs on the confining parameters of who gets credit for creating the Universe. Oh my, I pray God is not a man. Our salvation lies in the likelihood that he is neither or either, man, woman or beast of any kind. Incidentally, I'll turn 72 on 2-8-2023. I've written 8 or so novelettes....or vignettes, all of which are available on Amazon Kindle, or Amazon Kindle Unlimited. I graduated from college in 1973, majored in English, and finished a career working for the U.S. Federal Government, mostly with the Veteran's Administration in Louisville, KY.