Recluse
09-03-2012, 09:02 PM
This past weekend, a couple of friends of mine came into town--Ben & Cathy Rushing.
Ben is a fellow pilot, fellow shooter and fellow guitar player and collector and hosted me a book-signing in Natchitoches (Louisiana) the end of June, where, consequently, I met up and traded stories with Goatwhiskers and did some shooting.
The reason for Ben's visit to Big D this past weekend was to purchase a firearm--from one of our members.
When Ben and Cathy met up with this member, talk was traded as to what each did to earn a living. Turns out both are in the life-changing and life-improvement business. (No, they're not preachers.)
Ben has his PhD and is a professor of mathematics at NSU in Natchitoches. Our member here is also in the education business, in Garland (Texas).
Crabo runs an immensely successful auto vo-tech automotive bodyshop program.
As Crabo and the Rushings were making the rounds, Ben told me how Crabo kept pointing out an auto dealership and remarking, "Yep, I've got three students working there," and then showing them a big body shop repair facility with "And I've got five of my old students working there." Ben said as they drove through the area, Crabo kept pointing out dealerships and body shops and collision repair centers where former students of his now earned a living. A good living.
How cool is that? How AWESOME is that?
Regardless of economy, people still rely on transportation. When transportation gets crunched, someone has to fix it. The better you are at fixing it, the more places you can work and be successful.
But someone has to teach you. Someone has to CARE enough to want to teach you. And Crabo cares more than enough and the lives he has touched and continue to touch with our young people in the north Texas area is awe-inspiring.
Crabo is but one more superb example of what a unique and blessed community we have here at Cast Boolits, and I for one, am all the more blessed for being a part of the same community as him.
Just thought y'all should know about one of the giants that walks among us and who puts the future of young people at the forefront of his life.
That is a man.
:coffee:
Ben is a fellow pilot, fellow shooter and fellow guitar player and collector and hosted me a book-signing in Natchitoches (Louisiana) the end of June, where, consequently, I met up and traded stories with Goatwhiskers and did some shooting.
The reason for Ben's visit to Big D this past weekend was to purchase a firearm--from one of our members.
When Ben and Cathy met up with this member, talk was traded as to what each did to earn a living. Turns out both are in the life-changing and life-improvement business. (No, they're not preachers.)
Ben has his PhD and is a professor of mathematics at NSU in Natchitoches. Our member here is also in the education business, in Garland (Texas).
Crabo runs an immensely successful auto vo-tech automotive bodyshop program.
As Crabo and the Rushings were making the rounds, Ben told me how Crabo kept pointing out an auto dealership and remarking, "Yep, I've got three students working there," and then showing them a big body shop repair facility with "And I've got five of my old students working there." Ben said as they drove through the area, Crabo kept pointing out dealerships and body shops and collision repair centers where former students of his now earned a living. A good living.
How cool is that? How AWESOME is that?
Regardless of economy, people still rely on transportation. When transportation gets crunched, someone has to fix it. The better you are at fixing it, the more places you can work and be successful.
But someone has to teach you. Someone has to CARE enough to want to teach you. And Crabo cares more than enough and the lives he has touched and continue to touch with our young people in the north Texas area is awe-inspiring.
Crabo is but one more superb example of what a unique and blessed community we have here at Cast Boolits, and I for one, am all the more blessed for being a part of the same community as him.
Just thought y'all should know about one of the giants that walks among us and who puts the future of young people at the forefront of his life.
That is a man.
:coffee: