ABOUT "DAVID STONEMAN"

DAVID STONEMAN AND THE FIRST DAVID

Parks  are gossipy.  (Me, too.)  If I revealed much about myself,  my neighbors might guess who I am.  Soon a whisper would reach our park office,. . . . And how long would it take them to find an excuse to kick me out?

So I’ll say only what you could easily guess from my writing:   I’m Anglo, not as young as I wish. . . . and persistent as hell when I believe in something.

I will claim to be male.  But I would love it if men and women in a dozen Regency parks were accused of being “the real David Stoneman.”

Last, I cheerfully plead guilty to fibbing:  To guard myself, there’s one Churchill park about which I must always play dumb:  If talk about it comes up, I have to sound every bit as ignorant about my own park as about any other. 

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Though I’m not religious,  I chose my alias in honor of the Biblical David.  You don’t have to be a believer to love the tale of the young giant killer.  (The story is told in 1 Samuel, ch. 17.)

The Bible says David chose “five smooth stones” for ammunition. Apparently one stone did the job.  Do you suppose we park dwellers can find targets for the other four?

So David was a great ‘stone-man.’  But my last name is also a nod to Genl. George Stoneman, a Union soldier who did a lot of damage. . . . Here’s the lament of an old Reb who worked on a Virginia railroad, “Till Stoneman’s cavalry came/ And tore up the tracks again”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM

And here’s the picture (by Caravaggio) I use as my computer wallpaper—for inspiration.

—Best regards,

David Stoneman

p.s.  Blush, blush:  As I later learned, it turns out my “Goliath” is kinda puny.  Click on “ABOUT STINKY LINKS” to read about what a small player the Churchill Group is in the Wonderful World of mobile home parks.