Ode to the Front End

This book is somewhat unique. I am not the author although it was written through me . He is the author not me. Why I ended up being the one to be used by Him remains a complete baffling mystery. I am simply His humble steward in this process.

Everyone living in America recognizes Home Depot. They are a staple. It is a poem containing 2,500 quatrains that contain life as a part time cashier in a small Home Depot store. It is not always easy reading but it has appeal and value for anyone willing to read it.

What are the takeaways? For me the greatest takeaway is humility. The people portrayed in thsi writing are far superior to me. I am not worthy to be the proverbial gum on their shoe. Their trust and friendship provided me is more valuable than gold from Ophir. They live very difficult lives in an extraordinary manner. They never had a level playing filed. they must climb Mt Everest each day.

There is humor, pathos and at times Upton Sinclair type muckraking all mixed into the writing. The work shows the good and the bad of life, work and in some ways America today.

About the Author

The book Steward is best described as eclectic and eccentric. No surprise the work written through him should follow suit. By trade a retired risk manager who showed businesses how to improve benefits and coverage and lower cost using proper insurance risk tools. For that often ignored dismissed and ridiculed because the treatment did not follow acceptable norms. Life has taught to be different and wrong is forgivable but to be different and right is inexcusable.

A long quest to find the great truth of insurance plagued most of the first part of my career. Sought it through various insurance industry credentials then finally into law school at middle age. Somehow Excalibur existed and needed to be found.

One night this Steward awoke from a nightmare drenched in sweat and knew the quest had ended. The sword was in possession. A beautiful golden sword inscribed. The inscription read that the great truth of insurance is that it is neither great nor true. Twenty plus years of an endless quest ending in this. I wept and have never been the same.

I suspect this work may be a proximate result of that moment. You decide.

Dettagli