Walton Carr Boshear: December 5, 1935 – July 26, 1982
Father: Albert Allen Boshear
Mother: Sarah Estelle (Dailey) Boshear
For a while Walt published a newspaper in Del Mar California. He had a column called Life Enrichment. Here is an article he wrote and published on May 11, 1978:
Life Enrichment
by Walton C. Boshear
A Little Different Approach
I was sitting in a little cafe in Julian this past weekend, eating a delicious lunch and just resting. It was a beautiful day, the sun was out, and I was gazing out the window at the quaint little town.
There were lots of birds all around, particularly sparrows, hunting and pecking for food on the ground, in the street and everywhere. It was a perfect spring day.
Of all the birds, one little sparrow caught my attention. By some circumstance, probably accident, he had come upon a little different approach to the food problem. He was sitting on the front grill of a car and feasting on the bugs plastered there. Without moving more than a foot in either direction, he had more food than he could possibly eat. Not only that, but with the tourist traffic in Julian, he had an infinite supply of cars – all with fresh bugs.
There is no way to tell how he first discovered the treasure of a car grill. The important thing is that he paid attention and learned from his discovery.
In our own lives we frequently accidentally discover approaches to things that are just a little different – often better for us. Too often, though we fail to recognize these opportunities or we fail to learn from them. We find ourselves plodding through life doing the same old things in the same old ways.
Sometime it is suspicion that keeps us from changing to a different approach to things. If something comes along that appears to be a way we can get more from life with the same or less effort, we suspect there is a trick or a trap behind it.
Other times, though, it is simply a fear of taking a risk of failure by trying something a new way. The sparrow, in order to enjoy his feast on the grill, had to overcome his natural fear of people and dine next to the sidewalk where people walked back and forth.
More often I think it is lack of awareness that keeps us from taking advantage of new opportunities. Our perceptions become so conditioned and we filter out so much of what is happening around us that we don’t even realize an opportunity is there until it is gone. We simply don’t see it.
People see things from different perspectives. If we have a really good friend, we can do a favor for one another by pointing out opportunities for each other that we might have missed. Our friends can only do this for us if we demonstrate to them that we want it, that they can trust us not to react negatively, with criticism or sarcasm.
Sometimes, for me, a little different approach has opened up whole new areas of opportunity for experiencing life.
My Brother Walt
By Jerry A. Boshear
Shortly after Cheryl and I got married, we lived fairly close to her family but mine was spread out all over the place. One of my nearest relatives was my big brother, Walt. My wife has a brother too and it seemed like we were always seeing her brother a lot more than mine. We decided to save up our gas money and go visit my brother Walt in San Diego.
Now Walt was always real busy so we called him a couple of months early and made plans to visit him and his wife Marjean on the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. We marked it on our calendar so we wouldn’t forget (and so we could put it in our budget, things were pretty tight for us).
Like I said, Walt lived down near San Diego and we lived in Hawthorne. That was about a two-hour drive for us so we planned to stay over. But to make sure we got the most out of the weekend we started out real early Saturday morning to head down there. Good thing we didn’t leave ten minutes later…
We probably should have called first. We got there and parked and as we were walking up to his front door Walt and Marjean were walking out with suitcases. Boy were they surprised to see us. I said “Oh, I guess you forgot we were coming up this weekend?” He said “That’s okay, come on in.” When we got inside he said “Hang on a minute I have to make a phone call.” I said “Don’t change your plans because of us.” and he said “Don’t worry about it, just let me make a phone call.”
In a few minutes he came back and said “Okay, let’s go.”
“Go where?” we asked “We just got here.”
He said “I just bought two more plane tickets, we’re all four going to San Francisco for the weekend”. I told him we couldn’t afford that but he said don’t worry about he would take care of everything.
And boy did he. We flew First Class to San Francisco. We stayed at the Sir Francis Drake hotel. We went out dinner, drinks and a show. He paid for everything. Some of the places we went to were adult shows. They had a four drink minimum and when you first sat down they took your order and brought you all four drinks at once to make sure they got your money. He must have spent a fortune.
He wanted to take us to this really nice restaurant at the top of some big building but when we got there they told us we needed dinner jackets. We started to walk away and the guy said “We have jackets here you can use sir” but Walt said no thanks and we went someplace else.
It took us two hours to drive to San Diego and forty-five minutes later we were riding around in a taxi cab in San Francisco. What a guy! Thanks for the memories, Bro.
In a message dated 3/14/2000 4:29:31 AM, LPerkins 1 writes:
<< Yeah but….yeah but….It’s different when it’s me…..LOL!!
Love, Limpy >>
Limpy:
Reminds me of a story about Walt…
One day, back in the late fifties or early sixties, when we were working together at A. C. Martin. We were in the break room talking and this cute little secretary came in. She was kinda’ flirty with both of us. Somehow the conversation got to being married. Walt told her that he was married. She said: “Oh… you’re married. Well, that’s different.” Walt said: “No… it’s not any different..just regular!!” We all had a good laugh over that…
LoveJay