Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, February 6, 2017
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As a self-confident young lawyer, who was also solo practitioner, I would occasionally become so excited with the profundity of a particular pleading, that I had prepared, that I would call up the lawyers on other side, credulously, expecting them to rejoice with me!
Youth conceive of be-Alls and end-Alls. Elders, seasoned sages know that the sun shall shine tomorrow, if we did not witness its brilliant rays.
Thus, I would also smile whenever in my later years of the practice of law, if some excited young lawyer would call me up to inquire what I had thought of their draftsmanship.
And so it goes, as the world turns.