Of course, this also means that if you are lucky enough to live in this most quirky of places, be prepared to have folks dropping in all the time.
Last Wednesday, John Gilman was in town and dropped by the Nevada Community Foundation to say hello and see how things were going. John is a retired senior executive from the JC Penneys organization -- and someone with whom I did extensive community work not too many years ago in Green Bay. He is also a founder of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and introduced me to the wonderful possibilities of this work. Quite frankly, we have the opportunity to live in this community and to work for the Nevada Community Foundation today because of John Gilman.
Well, after John, we also have my wife's parents visiting us for the coming week. Here they are with some of our family overlooking Lake Mead...
The most surprising visit of the week, though, came from David Jacang. David's mom has been a close friend of my mom's for nearly 35 years and they live next to each other in Aiea to this day. In other words, David was one of the guys I grew up with as a little boy. It's amazing how things of your childhood stick with you through the years.
For instance, David reminded me today that he was never a football fan but still holds a fondness in his heart for the Pittsburgh Steelers because I was a fan of the Dallas Cowboys. Ah, boys will be boys.
Well, David has four kids himself (he's still an amateur by our standards, though), and brought his oldest with him while he was in Las Vegas on business.
Here is his son Kawika with my son Bret Jr., both of whom are six years old...
These two little boys hit it off immediately -- it's amazing how kids of the same age just seem to find each other among the gaggle of kids in our house. These boys started climbing the steps in our house and jumping down, trying to see who could jump from the highest stair.
It's like when David and I were kids and jumped off the wall into my parent's pool -- seeing who could jump the furtherest.
My son playing with David's son. When did we grow up and start having kids of our own?
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