Past

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

~ Ivern Ball

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For the last few days, I visited Ohio where I worked about 10 years ago. It was nice to go back and talk about the "good old days on South Green" and the iconic FRANK ROBINSON. Frank is the person who taught me how to think about my work (not just react and do work) and also how to have fun with / borderline haze my co-workers.

As an example, he once put a note in another HD's box that was written to look like a jury summons. The time of the summons coincided with our annual training, which she would have been excused from. She was ecstatic that she would get to miss out on training. Then Frank told her it was a joke.

Perhaps this quote best capture's Frank's work (from a Michael Collins review of Lost Souls), "Lost Souls... a dark, violent mystery spiked with some cruel humor and plenty of social criticism." You could replace "Lost Souls" with "Frank Robinson" and that pretty much sums him up. Except not really so violent, dark, or mysterious.