Important People

What does it mean to influence somebody? To hold them in your hand and put your thoughts and feelings into them? To provide the beacons in life by which they find their way? For me this question is almost impossible to answer. Parenthood has offered only glimpses of what it's like to be the influencer and perhaps that's for the best.

But to be the influencee... that I know well. My thanks and my love to the following people for helping to define that which I call myself.

Jacques Cousteau - Captain of the Calypso, Defender of Oceans, Friend of the Earth

Gene Roddenberry - Creator of Star Trek

Charles Schultz - Creator of Peanuts

Chuck Jones - Animator, Director, Comic Genius

L. Ron Hubbard - Author, Scientist, Founder of Dianetics & Scientology