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William Platt

William was born in the last year of silver money. His ancestors go back to the beginning of time. He believes not in coincidences and small worlds but in miracles. He is the father of four and only regrets the children he didn't have. He knows in the end, "the truth will out" because his father told him so. Every story he has written is true, though truth may reside in the mind of a child being told a story by a great-grandparent who did not want the story to vanish. His favorite expression is, "Good does not need evil in order for good to survive, but evil must have good in order for evil to survive. Do not be the good enabling evil".

My Dad was a Joker Blog

My Dad was a Joker

My dad was a joker.  It was one of his favorite words.  He had lots of favorite words and phrases.  Some of them you will be introduced to in this story.  By a joker, I mean a funny joker.  He always had something running in the background...some program on autopilot and you couldn't tell if it was bothering him or…
William Platt
September 22, 2023
Ropes and Swimming Holes Blog

Ropes and Swimming Holes

He was old and black...negro...colored he'd say and he had been for a good while.  "I know you."  He said.  "You watch me thru de windah."  I nodded as our first conversation concluded. He drove his old mule down the newly-paved asphalt roads, begrudgingly regal on an old scrap tire his plow rested...the point hidden inside the body of the…
William Platt
November 10, 2022