Sometimes these only mean something to me.
I was in Mexico on a retreat leading up to Thanksgiving this year and hadn’t thought too deeply about Tom. It was a personal development retreat and I had a couple of breakthroughs there. More on that some other time.
A couple of nights before I started to think about Tom and what he would get up to. I was thinking of endings and beginnings in life and almost had the thought of putting Tom out to pasture for good. But I couldn’t do it. So instead I just cribbed the Godfather and the Bible; two very worthy literary influences, well maybe just one. Enjoy Tom for he is reborn a new person with new desires and a new outlook on life. Hopefully just like me.