Comments on: I’m baaaaaack! http://ancienttruthmodernsound.com/im-baaaaaack Frank thoughts on our times from the view of the Gospel. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:58:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jil http://ancienttruthmodernsound.com/im-baaaaaack#comment-2503 Jil Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:09:28 +0000 http://ancienttruthmodernsound.com/im-baaaaaack#comment-2503 I will forewarn you that this will be less of a comment on your current post and more a comment on the question, "Who is Doug Meikle". I would have to assume that you would have a veritable bouillabaisse of responses were any number of your acquaintances and or friends to try, in their own words to answer that fateful question, “Who is Doug Meikle?”. To this end I will add my own opinion of what defines a Doug Meikle. A Doug Meikle is a unique being who bandies about saying things like, “Somehow when I was a teenager and I imagined myself on a road trip in the States, flying down a country road listening to The Eagles Hotel California, I imagined myself in a Mustang, windows down, music blaring, not with three women, three kids and a mini van”. He also introduced a young impressionable fledgling writer to the term, “Plunker”, used in the sentence; Meredith S. F. is a complete plunker”, thus changing the young impressionable writers working vocabulary forever. She is still in awe of its many uses and will be forever grateful. A Doug Meikle can be a complicated thing. He gets emotional over important dates and supports his wife’s unhealthy addiction to Haggis. He is sensitive. He openly and unabashedly loves his children. He had the ability to intrinsically know when a certain young writer doubted her abilities and to bring her back a book from one of his trips abroad, A Scots Quair by one Lewis Grassic Gibbon, with such an overwhelmingly complimentary inscription, insanely comparing her to Gibbon, written inside of it’s now yellow pages that she began to believe in herself once more, and if she ever does finish writing that novel he will know it because his name will be on the inside cover. She never forgot that, even if he did. He accepted a young woman who was struggling after a devastating car accident, in both her relationships with her family and with her faith into his home as more than just a babysitter but also a friend. He never knew how much she needed that at that time in her life. It changed who she was as a person. In answering that question “who is a Doug Meikle?” one inevitably must answer also, the question, “who is a Karen Meikle?”. There are not enough words to answer them both today. Individually they are people who matter. Together they are an example of a successful and inspiring couple who balance each other out. So to this person, a Doug Meikle is a man who made a difference in her life. I doubt that he knew that at the time and that makes it even more precious. He made a difference without even trying, just by being himself. A Doug Meikle is somebody. Hope all is well with you and Karen and the kids. Much love, Jil Staples Houston, Texas I will forewarn you that this will be less of a comment on your current post and more a comment on the question, “Who is Doug Meikle”. I would have to assume that you would have a veritable bouillabaisse of responses were any number of your acquaintances and or friends to try, in their own words to answer that fateful question, “Who is Doug Meikle?”. To this end I will add my own opinion of what defines a Doug Meikle.

A Doug Meikle is a unique being who bandies about saying things like, “Somehow when I was a teenager and I imagined myself on a road trip in the States, flying down a country road listening to The Eagles Hotel California, I imagined myself in a Mustang, windows down, music blaring, not with three women, three kids and a mini van”. He also introduced a young impressionable fledgling writer to the term, “Plunker”, used in the sentence; Meredith S. F. is a complete plunker”, thus changing the young impressionable writers working vocabulary forever. She is still in awe of its many uses and will be forever grateful.

A Doug Meikle can be a complicated thing. He gets emotional over important dates and supports his wife’s unhealthy addiction to Haggis. He is sensitive. He openly and unabashedly loves his children. He had the ability to intrinsically know when a certain young writer doubted her abilities and to bring her back a book from one of his trips abroad, A Scots Quair by one Lewis Grassic Gibbon, with such an overwhelmingly complimentary inscription, insanely comparing her to Gibbon, written inside of it’s now yellow pages that she began to believe in herself once more, and if she ever does finish writing that novel he will know it because his name will be on the inside cover. She never forgot that, even if he did.

He accepted a young woman who was struggling after a devastating car accident, in both her relationships with her family and with her faith into his home as more than just a babysitter but also a friend. He never knew how much she needed that at that time in her life. It changed who she was as a person. In answering that question “who is a Doug Meikle?” one inevitably must answer also, the question, “who is a Karen Meikle?”. There are not enough words to answer them both today. Individually they are people who matter. Together they are an example of a successful and inspiring couple who balance each other out.

So to this person, a Doug Meikle is a man who made a difference in her life. I doubt that he knew that at the time and that makes it even more precious. He made a difference without even trying, just by being himself.

A Doug Meikle is somebody.

Hope all is well with you and Karen and the kids.

Much love, Jil Staples
Houston, Texas

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