Birthday: it's the 50th year since my first skydive.

[patworks 5]

MILESTONE: Birthday boy - - 2011 heralds the 50th year since my first skydive.
Remembering when I was there then:
Years are a river whose times flow to now and beyond.
From back when to here now maps Happy trails! Memories abound to tickle my giggles, head-shakes, and grins.
My here now is Old fart: Mind: a warped time-machine; Body, a worn-out crash-test-Dummy.
The Route from Then: Pathways blessed by luck. Vistas touched by God. Time-thread by risk-led.
Mind-Music is my travel companion: Over a half-century learning an enlightenment symphony: songs of sky vistas, 3D-visuals, events, pain, loves, and friendships. A whiff of black-death adds spice. My Life-song is akin to 10,000 MP3s. Hear life-melodies resonate as her songs repeat on “Random”
Whilst life unfolds her robes to the sun, petal by petal.

Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

[oldwomanc6 38]

Happy Skybirthday!

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[lodestar 0]

Happy Birthday Pat, glad you're still with us and doing fine....always thought of you as one of those Cultural Icons of the sport, it's been a genuine pleasure to have known you.

[BillyVance 34]

You sir, are a national treasure. You've seen just about everything in the sport, the evolution of skydiving gear, planes, drop zones, etc. 50 years is a damn long time.

Congratulations!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Gene03 0]

Pat who????????????

Happy sbday you old sugar geezer.

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

[skybill 18]

Hi Pat,
Congrats!!! and many more Blue Skyz!!

SCR-2034, SCS-680

III%,
Deli-out

[Guru312 0]

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You sir, are a national treasure. ... Congratulations!

Not only is he a national treasure, he is also OLD.

Congratulations, Pat!!! There aren't too many of us who can claim the big 50 for our years in the sport. My first skydive was June 1960.

I've loved reading your stuff over the years. I hope you have another 50 in you.

Guru312

I am not DB Cooper

[howardwhite 3]

You've got me by a little more than four years.
It's still fun.

HW

[NovaTTT 1]

Congrats!


HIM! ...

"Even in a world where perfection is unattainable, there's still a difference between excellence and mediocrity." Gary73

[fossg 0]

Happy Birthday!!! I bought your book 30 years ago. I still read and re read it today

[377 20]

Happy birthday Pat. Your book was a big help to me (back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the DZ).

377
First jump 1968.
Still jumping and no titanium.

2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

[GreenLight 5]

Happy Skybitrthday Pat you old dog. HIM HIM....

Green Light
"Harry, why did you land all the way out there? Nobody else landed out there."
"Your statement answered your question."

[Krip 2]

Hi Pat

Congrats on the big 50.
I think I had at least one of your books but it was so long ago and I've moved so many times it's long gone.

R.I.P.

One Jump Wonder

[skr 1]

:-)

[jbrasher 0]

Happy Birthday, Pat!
You where the first skydiver I ever talked to.

Thanks,

Red, White and Blue Skies,

John T. Brasher D-5166

[piisfish 135]

happy skyday. Good start for the 50 next ones

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[1888 0]

*** MILESTONE: Birthday boy - - 2011 heralds the 50th year since my first skydive.


Happy birthday. I also did my 50th anniv. jump on 8/12/11 at Skydive New England. Perhaps the old days were best. No doors so we could get rid of the beer cans when we emptied them.