But I remember those easy afternoon talks with Pop (as we brothers called our father) during our Children's Hour as some of my most pleasant family experiences as an adult.
Sometimes I did the talking when we were together and sometimes Pop asked me questions about my life and travels.
For example, sometimes while I was making a pilgrimage, I was living very free.
I didn’t pay much attention to personal economics or money transactions.
Whatever little cash I had in my pocket or whatever I earned was OK.
I didn’t wonder what would happen if I ran out of dough or
if I would starve of if I would never get rich or anything like that. Ithopught at the time I was "living in God's pocket" as used to think of it--in a totally safe place in other words.
For a while I even had the policy of giving whatever money I had away every night so I could start every morning
fresh and empty—you could say, “broke”—though I didn’t think of it that way at
all. For me it was just kind of an experiment in living.
Pop asked me why I had lived that
way.and I said : “Well, a long time ago you told us kids we shouldn’t be
overly concerned with money.”
“Yeah,” he replied, “but I never thought you’d believe me!”
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