Jeff Parker
by Jeff Parker
My bad side scared and old
I'm Jeff, formally from Santa Barbara. I have been in the mental health field working with special needs and the criminally insane for a bunch of years. I also volunteered with American Red Cross here in Kona after the last earthquake and on the mainland after Katrina for three years. Now it's time for my "mental health". That is why I am now living in Kailua-Kona. For I feel that: Fortune favors the bold. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
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