ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    I am profoundly grateful to my sister-in-law, Peggy Smith Evans, who at various times has looked over my writing unjudgementally checking it for grammar and the like.

   Lisa Shalet a Facebook friend, and Carol Pickett a co-worker; thank you all very much for the time you spent assisting me with making the manuscript readable and worth the consideration. I deeply appreciate the encouraged insightfulness of those who have endured my readings to them personally.

 Thank you for your advice and insights.

 Thanks to all those who proofread the scribbled bits of lines that came to them and shared their views and thoughts: Marjorie Jo Chesebro, Tony Noack, Lisa Hughes, Carlos Ivan Sanchez, Damon Terrell, Daye Roberts, Leda Castile, Jim Lawrence; and always John Velasquez, for his inspiration.

 Tribute to those who will forever be remembered for their encouragement for simply being there: Stephie Carter and Michael T. Smith.

 As always I thank Mike Cope, who never stopped pushing me forward, encouraging and believing in the tenacity of my efforts to accomplish my goals; and who even after his passing still inspired my work. His abiding friendship, from childhood into adulthood has continued to inspire my imagination.

 Special thanks to my wife, Alice Irene who listened to every scrap of penciled, raw unedited scribbled rewrites, still offered up her thoughts and endured my journey through many of the things left unspoken in this book, and remains my companion and lifelong friend despite of myself. 

~ David DeLane Snow