Carpenter's Column: I would also like to thank

…all the nurses, teachers, librarians, the guys that pick up bulky trash, whoever wrote “Dancing in the Street,” George Carlin, Rita Rudner, my parents, my siblings, my friends, my enemies, the Dali Lama, Gichin Funakoshi, James McMurtry, Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Dorothy Parker, John Wayne, John Ford, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, the Eagles, James Taylor, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Gilliam Welch, Cat Stevens, The Carter Family, Muhammad Ali, all of the housecats that have shared their lives with us, the celestial sphere, Edwin Hubble, the cosmologists looking for the beginning of time, Harun Al-Rashid, Mozart, Chuck Berry, roses, raccoons, herons, the way still water reflects a blue sky and clouds, the Bo Diddley beat, the gang at Silver Challenge, my surgeo