I spent 6 hours cooking Thanksgiving dinner. At 7 pm, my son arrived with 6 guests from my daughter-in-law’s family. They sat down like they owned my home. My DIL said, “Would you mind eating in the kitchen, Dad?” I just smiled and walked into the kitchen… what I did next had everyone screaming. – usnews

I was still deciding.

I suspect I will be deciding for some time yet.

What I know is this.

A man who built something over 30 years with his hands, with his credit, with every early morning and every hard call and every promise he kept when keeping it cost him something.

That man does not lose what he built because someone younger and louder decided to stand where he was standing.

He loses it only if he stops seeing what is happening.

I saw it.

I waited until I could see all of it and then I moved.

I am 63 years old.

I drove through ice storms to make bids on jobs that would keep six families paid through the winter.

I ate lunch in a truck cab for a decade because the office I could not afford yet was on the other side of the work I had not yet done.