History is one long processional of crazy ideas. – Phil Knight
Does that make me a historian?
I still dream of Nike, almost forty years after I ran away.
Dream about working for Nike.
Last night, I was trying to wrap a banana box full of high priority fan mail and omniscient instructions for Tinker Hatfield,
who was in Aspen designing an espresso shop- ski lodge- shoe store. The Tiki-bar was my idea.
Meanwhile, Knight wanted me to watch his Maltese puppy,
the adventurous sort, intent on investigating all the dangerous places on campus. I forget those dangerous places, even in my dreams. So, anyway, got in tremendous shape chasing Phil's dog, while I was supposed to be doing my actual job, offering sage marital advice to star high school athletes. Woke up running laps v e r y s l o w l y on the Joe Henderson track circling the secretarial pool.
IF there comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens, I am guessing that's when you wake.