Part of a guest lecture in our intro to communication course. The topic was writing as career and vocation. This is the last eight minutes of the video, looking at the influence of their fathers on three writers: Zinsser, Leax and me.
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You can read an essay by the same title on my personal blog at http://blog.thedaysman.com/2009/08/09/a-tale-of-three-father/
It gives me great joy that this was not only captured, but made available for the greater community to benefit from (including myself). Words are incredibly powerful. This rings true here in the honoring of your father and the legacy he passed on which manifests itself not necessarily in replication of identical form, but rather the reflection of concept and work ethic possibly through entirely different mediums.
Thank you, Dr. Metts, for this challenge to consider and value my heritage, and to live and love today.