I'm getting there...

[Will Power]

Nice sentiments and genuine:thumbup:

Knives are for use indeed and use, ingrains valuable character in them, like the mellowing of buildings.

Just wish Pa were still around to share things with.

 

[mnblade]

I might be 24, married, and mature, but I've come to realize that none of those traits are the measure of a man.

Well, they may not be the measure of a man, but they sure come a lot closer than so much of what our society seems to measure men by these days: The value of his SUV or sports car, the size of his flat-screen TV, the price tag on his watch, the size of his house (no matter how in hock to the bank he is for it), and other such nonsensical BS. It sounds to me, Parke1, like you've got your head screwed on right.