With the hoopla of the Super Bowl over, there is some commentary on the performance of The Who, playing their most popular songs, many of which also happen to be the theme songs of of the CBS shows in the CSI series. The most well known, perhaps, asks the question “Who Are You?”
The question is one I found an interesting answer to on a recent Saturday. I was introduced to someone using a phrase that is maybe one of the best “who are you” answers about me
For many of us, what we do defines us to others. Carlos Zambrano and Jonathan Sanchez both became legends last year , and will now be known as pitchers who threw perfect games in Major League Baseball. Lance Moore will be known as the Saints football player who smartly etended the ball over the goal line during the 2 point conversion play in Superbowl XLIV. When I used to live in the city, there was an older man known as “walking man.”
I never learned his name, although most everyone in the town knew of him. He was well into his 70′s, and would walk in running shorts, shirtless, all times of day and in all parts of the town. We would see him beginning in the early spring through late fall. His chest, muscular for his age, deeply brown from sun. To the community, he was “walking man”.
There’s Bill the mechanic, Joyce the librarian, or Jeff, “the guy with the two big dogs.” In my life, I’ve been known as student, consultant, entrepreneur, producer, professor, boss, husband, dad, brother, uncle, ex, and other things that might tip the censorship of this blog to the limit.
So who am I these days? On that Saturday I found out.
Don Winslow shot this photo in Austin, Texas.
We were sitting at Bob’s barn, catching up on stories from the week when a local woman dropped off her car for some work. She knew one of the men I was talking with, but didn’t know the rest of us, and as the introductions went around the room, when they came to me, he said,
“This is Fritz, he lives south of town, he raises ducks and pheasants.”
I guess that pretty much sums it up.
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