A Different Perspective: 8/14/2024

I had a reunion last week with a friend I will have known for 60 years at the end of this month. We were freshmen in the Montana School of Mines dormitory in 1964. Although we kept in touch, primarily via email, we had not seen each other for nearly thirty years. Over a few days, we relived our early time together, much of it wasted, and shook our heads in amazement at the things we did without thinking.

It’s an established fact that young men’s brains don’t fully develop their reasoning and self-preservation areas until sometime in the late twenties. We were like the perfect lab rats to verif...