Welcome to JFK, I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello, Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 96.

Once again, I owe listeners an apology for the delay in getting this latest episode published.

Now, this last pause has officially been the longest pause since the beginning of the podcast.

I won't bore you with the details of why. It has been a difficult period for me on a number of fronts,

and I wondered when the moment would arrive again,

when hope would spring eternal and I could look up from everything else in life and be granted

a chance to start writing the next episode of JFK, The Enduring Secret. And more importantly,

to pivot from the lighted sorrows of the day. I don't want to get

all melancholy on you, but life has had its challenges for each of us. And no matter how difficult

things become, I know for sure that you just have to stay at it. You just have to stay at it. I am reminded that it's not so easy to do that

for everyone in this world. I'll share a local story with you that punctuates this very point.

I live in a condo in South Florida and a couple of weeks ago, a middle-aged man who lives here made his way to the catwalk

on a high floor of our building and threw himself over, ending his life.

He had a wife and a child, I am told.

I didn't know him, but I wondered still what in life was so bad for him, so intolerable that he could not just

stay at it, that the pain and the suffering was so incredible that for him, this must have become

his only path out. What a tragedy. It's hard for others to understand or even comprehend what fears each of us

harbor privately in our own minds. But I am reminded constantly that whatever your personal circumstance,

hope, is one of the ingredients for all of us to abate those fears.

When hope is lost, everything changes. So this little wander before we start the episode is about

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