Layman Lance D. Hansen

Gebundenes Buch

Random & Incomplete Lessons of a Layman

The journey is never over

Beschreibung

Everyone begins as a Layman. Everyone is on a journey. Many of our journeys intersect. When those intersections occur, we engage in some way. Whether by intention or by happenstance, whether by omission or by commission, we engage and have an impact on each other. This is where lessons are learned, or at least, lessons are available if we choose to observe and learn them. It is easy to ignore lessons that were carefully crafted for us...in fact maybe we often do ignore them. I've tried with great diligence to learn lessons along my particular path . . . to learn to distinguish good from bad, proper from improper, hope from despair, how to engage and when not to. This book is a partial expression of those lessons gained from engagement with others whom I've encountered thus far. These lessons are shared as a book because I wanted them to endure. I also wanted to convey, through their enduring nature, that we can commit to the knowledge of how to interact, how to hope, how to plan, and how to persevere. I wanted readers to be able to study the lessons I have learned, unwrap these lessons in their own contexts, and build upon them or reject them. Whichever the case may be, the reader may discover something new about themself or the world within which they live and occupy space and time with others whom they will encounter along their journey. I started with nothing and will hopefully leave something for others to build upon. This was my journey, and this book is part of it.

Autor

Lance D. Hansen, layman, hunter, trapper, athlete, student, soldier, and patriot was raised under harsh and often unfair circumstances in a small wood-heated home in Northern Wisconsin. Fight or flight were often the only choices that mattered. Daily family life could be as harsh as the Wisconsin winters. Early school life could often be the same. First, he learned to endure, then to fight, but never to flee. One day he simply decided to alter his own future, and through academic and athletic accomplishment gained the attention of coaches, local politicians, and other adults with decision authority. Suddenly a small-town local had a chance not before considered. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy, struggled early, but graduated and was commissioned. Strong relationships that endure to this day were forged under the pressure. He served in war during Desert Shield/Desert Storm and was acknowledged. He left uniformed service before his career was complete to attend to family needs. He joined the Army Civilian Corps-as a civilian federal servant, and eventually served at senior and executive levels of three Army laboratories. Along the way he attended advanced education as a project and found his way into and through a Doctoral program at Purdue University. Lance has enjoyed woodworking, beekeeping, animal husbandry, vegetable farming, soldiering, sawmilling, welding, crafting, fishing, hunting, studying, learning, antiquing, thrifting, collecting, and partying. All experiences have lessons to share. He still finds life is rich with possibilities. He credits his wife Susan of thirty-four years and counting, for the stability needed to manage learning and adapting through the half-done projects of life's personal and professional trials while raising their three children into healthy adulthood. He and Susan are proud of these young adults. These lessons were very real, gained along a hard journey thus far taken, and more are likely to come. The next leg of the journey is around the corner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Out of Luck Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781662959738
• ISBN-10: 1662959737
• Artikelnr.: 74802535