IT'S A GOOD THING

John Adams once said that he could never imagine himself living anywhere else except by the sea. How it does have its charms. How it does have its appeal.

But I was reminded of a friend of mine who took a tract of land and built a golf course. It wasn't a very good course. (And it wasn't a friend named Ralph, who built a very good course, but ran short of money to keep it up, but his design was great. His game was great. But it took him forever to hit a shot. He visualized, he looked at a shot on a familiar course as if he were playing it for the first time, but he'd put up good numbers.) But he thought it was beautiful. He would just look over the land and marvel. So like President Adams, he couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Even after he sold the course, he could often times be found there. It still had the appeal to him.

Another friend of mine, an author, starts a short story with the line, "Kansas is best driven at night." Yet I have friends in Kansas, and one loyal reader Blaine E., who love the state. It has its charms and quiet sunsets and rolling hills (at least around Kansas City) and its appeal.

For me, the warmth, the desert are what I enjoy. Not that I don't love traveling to the sea and other climes. But I also love no or at least low humidity. And like my two golf course architects, I love to look out over a great golf course.

So there you have it. Different people like to live different places. And it's a good thing.