What I’m about to do is risky business. I want to give credit where credit is due to an old friend. The risk involved has to do with the fact that this old friend is known better to me than he is to you. It’s a personal matter. And personal matters need to go a bit further to prove their point. I’ll do my best to show relevance. The lessons he taught best way, by example, not by words. The impression left by those lessons has stayed with me to a degree he himself will surely find surprising when he reads this. It is the lessons, more than the man, that I wish to share.