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Intention

As we proceed through the program Simplicity, Silence, Sabbath, let us look at the first of the five attitudes we must have to simplify our lives:  intention. Intention Some things you remember-I was seven or eight years old when I set the course of my life in motion.  I was to become a major league baseball player. You say, 'how do you remember you were seven or eight?'  I was in the back of my father's station wagon, with two friends, probably A.T. Higle and Rusty Hoehn, and we were coming back from a game at Yankee Stadium where the hated Yankees (Giants fans were the Aschermanns) played the Boston Red Sox.   I had my new 'SOX' hat on and was absolutely convinced from that day forward, nothing would stop me from one day wearing a real SOX hat and playing in that stadium.  (Little did I know at the time I had bought a White Sox hat when I thought I was buying a Red Sox hat; a telling sign I would say-see below). How you might also say could I be so sure