CHAPTER 5
Construct Value-Based Guardrails
The chief enemy of creativity is “good” sense.
—PABLO PICASSO
Miss Lena Hartley, bless her heart, was wrong. And she really was trying to be helpful. But sure as rain, she was wrong.
When Nancy Marie Rainey of Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, gave a “yes” answer to my “Will you be my life partner?” question, it was one of the happiest days of my life. But getting married in the Deep South in the 1960s was not without challenges. In particular, it meant getting the blessing of the guardians of local civility and protocol—the Women’s Missionary Circle #4 of the First Baptist Church in my hometown.
The setting for this important rite was a shower for my bride-to-be sponsored by Circle #4. The fact that I was marrying ...
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