As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

Eventually his books of essays were transformed into two stage productions. Negotiations are under way for further publication in Europe in Spanish Italian and German. His prose style is very simple and direct and finds life-affirming maxims in such mundane matters as zoos leaf-raking and dusting.