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Walter Borden has helped me 'keep-a-goin'

Writing a book is difficult.

Well. It’s easier than a lot of things that we all live through everyday.

And, finishing this thing has come in fits and starts.

Whenever I’m ready to give up, Walter Borden comes to visit me.

Well. He doesn’t physically come to visit me. His words though? They come back, just as fresh and as helpful as the day I heard them:

Keep-a-goin’

In the eleventh grade a local actor visited my high school.

His name was Walter Borden.

He performed part of his play called Tightrope Time.

Side note: Tightrope Time became a book by Walter. I even found him performing parts of the play on CBC. Check it out here!

Walter must be a remarkable fool. In the video he states: “I have tried to show that in spite of all the things that may come down on your head in your lifetime, the human spirit will always rise again.”

There is a refrain within the piece that gets repeated: Keep-a-goin’

My whole life that echoed through my heart. Things would get tough, I’d hear Walter - Keep-a-goin’

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