Tuesday, August 23, 1988 3:08 AM
Swift Trail, Safford, Arizona
MY LIFE GOAL
The Person I Intend to Become -
I see myself in control of myself, my life, and my destiny, as the only one who has control over my thoughts, supporting myself as a teacher and published composer. I will work hard with persistence and planning to spread my music over the globe and desiring and obtaining the riches of life which increase the creativity and productivity of my Art. Building a legacy that my two natural children, whom I love beyond all words and thoughts, Frances Marie Simpson and Gordon Daniel Simpson will be proud to call their own; in name and in wealth; their father's compositions being played around the world and in space, and that my own parents, Joseph Thomas Simpson and Jean Elizabeth Ahern would say, "We're proud of you Bub." To apply the principles of riches in my own life; to give thanks each day for the blessings I have, and to pray that the two greatest blessings I had, that were so cruelly torn from me, will again be united in my life.
To these things here listed, I commit my life and my entire being; and with ceaseless and unending effort, will work to achieve their realization. I will watch each day as I see myself becoming more and more the man I wish to be: a self-reliant, self-assured, self-confident and successful teacher and composer, giving my two beautiful children all the love I have in my heart for all the days of our lives and beyond. Preparing myself to be the kind of father my children will one day be proud to say:
My Dad. . . now here is a man.
Signed: Daniel Léo Simpson
Swift Trail, Safford, Arizona
August 23, 1988