{"id":15868,"date":"2021-10-13T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2021-10-13T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:43:41","slug":"tribute-to-a-helper-paul-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15868","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to a helper: Paul Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It occurred to me today <\/strong>that the tribute I posted on Monday to my friend and former boss Paul Nash, who died Saturday, was missing an important element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I forgot to talk about his gift for helping. That\u2019s a biblical gift (1 Cor. 12:28), and Paul had it to a greater degree than anyone I\u2019ve ever known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the years I worked for him, I can\u2019t recall ever hearing him turn anyone away who came to him for help. If he couldn\u2019t help by himself, he could always think of someone on his extensive contacts list who\u2019d be able to. Most of the time, though, he could help personally, because he was one of those omni-competent people who make lesser men feel inadequate. He was physically strong, and good with his hands, and he\u2019d grown up on a farm and knew how to tinker with things. He knew work-arounds. He knew a trick or two they don\u2019t teach you in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he always had time. Even if the day was full of important phone calls and meetings (they usually were; his schedule was insane), he could take an hour or two to help you out. He could always finish the rest of his work later that night. Maybe he\u2019d only get a few hours of sleep. Or none at all. Sleep was boring, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not like that. I\u2019m good for about two things in the world \u2013 writing (translation is a sub-category thereof), and acting\/reading copy. If I try to help you out with any problem outside those areas, I\u2019ll probably drop something or step on it or set something on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure whether the world needs a lot of people with my gifts. It never runs out of the need for people like Paul. He\u2019ll be missed, by many, many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It occurred to me today that the tribute I posted on Monday to my friend and former boss Paul Nash, who died Saturday, was missing an important element. I forgot to talk about his gift for helping. That\u2019s a biblical gift (1 Cor. 12:28), and Paul had it to a greater degree than anyone I\u2019ve … Continue reading Tribute to a helper: Paul Nash<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[3888],"class_list":["post-15868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paul-m-nash"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15869,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}