ABSTRACT
Like many others, I periodically take stock of the past so as to guide the present and prepare for the future. So this opportunity pleases in ways beyond what I can express, let alone understand. Overall, this essay details a small handful of propositions that guided my praxis as an early ODer, outlines their rationales, and sketches some revisionism in a career that includes about 40 years of “being in OD,” or some approximation thereto.
