One of these days I'm gonna move that mountain

"And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." -Matthew 17:20 KJV.

I had the faith that I could move that pile of gravels and I'm sure that I made a dent in them. I wish I could remember the circumstances surrounding when these pictures were taken. This was back in 1968, I was only around 2-years old. Pam and I were no doubt playing and pretending to be something or somebody. Perhaps I was a construction worker, soldier, or cowboy, and Pam maybe a Princess, school teacher, or a mother or something. We are at my papaw Chesney's house. I am pushing a pile of new gravels in his second driveway. He had two driveways in front of his house. The first one led to a garage and the second one led to a gate that opened up into a cow pasture. Whenever lots of company would come over, we would take up both driveways parking cars. My family and I usually walked to his house since it was just through the cow pasture.

Pam and I had a good life growing up. We may not have had all of the new toys and things that some of the more well-off kids had but we had very healthy imaginations. In my opinion that is a much better thing to possess than material objects. I've always heard that saying "if you put your mind to it, you can do anything." I think that saying is true but it takes a lot of determination and drive in order to achieve your dreams. I've always had big dreams and ideas but just lack the motivation to follow through with them.

I think Pam was a lot the same as me on that subject as well. She was so talented but always seemed to just stay in the background. I would probably be a very wealthy man if I was a little more motivated. I'm more of a jack of all trades and master of none kind of guy. I can't even tell you the number of times when I was growing up that my teachers said, "Byron has great potential, he just doesn't apply himself." I probably use that as a crutch but in a way it's true. Maybe I don't believe in myself enough, who knows? Maybe one of these days I'll finally move that mountain...