Ah John but what a creature we are.

Aware, sentient means creators…curious, imaginative, emotional, intellectual, aware beings …..

We are inquisitive and we can learn from role models in our history. People who have made a positive impact in all fields of endeavor and in the very way we organize our lives

Successful people in all walks of life can point to their role models and mentors and teachers.

Guess it is just natural to point to particual people in a group as special

Tampa Stan was a member of both JPF and Shayne Vaughan's The Write Stuff back in the day.

TWS was a hosted forum Shayne had set up that sold eyeballs so free to everyone.
Stan, Couch, Graham Henderson, Kaley Willow, Wyman Lloyd, Bobby Gallup, Corky Bernard, Cindy Miller aka Tink, Anthony Torres and others I have missed and myself were members of both pre 2000

JPF was hosted on a primitive black and white forum back then that quickly became popular and had to move up in capability so Brian ported it over to UBBthreads Dec 2000 (my avatar join date).
The post I remember best from that old board was Kaley's one about loose cows...she was a gem who worked with Wyman on children's music.

The early 2000s was IMO the start of our Golden Age with Pineyfest and such.

Stan was our lyric a day guy. He wrote every day as a habit, likely developed during the Vietnam War when he served in Hanoi as a reporter for the US army newspaper...well he started as a reporter but his love was to draw cartoons for it like his hero Shel Silverstein. Had great stories around his posts. He also typed from his keyboard into his TV.

Every day there was a fresh Stan lyric and they were all over the place. News, life, dumb events, Stan always had an angle he could find to have fun with. He also liberally shared his time on line on other posts offering his considered opinion

You knew he loved La Femme and he regularly wrote his lyric of the day for her or about something stupid he did

Stan was a good example of the type of person we can be and deserves to be remembered fondly with a certain respect

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop