The Flashlight

The FlashlightFrom each obstacle encountered and conquered, Stacy sapped fresh strength with which to confront the next; and from that next conquest, his depleted drive was again restored and poised to meet the latest oncoming task. Life to him was an endless series of regularly spaced hurdles he had to leap over. This was the form of his imagination--not that he was in any big hurry to reach some particular goal in life. But life was motion and motion required a direction and Stacy was young an...