Jim Langley: Good Is Just Not Good Enough

Jim Langley: Good Is Just Not Good Enough

Good is just not good enough. Those words were never spoken by our parents who epitomized the Greatest Generation. Dad was born in 1911 and raised by his grandparents on a Missouri farm after his parents were simultaneously struck by lightning when he was 8. Mom was born in 1919, raised on a farm in South Central Texas by parents who were first-generation German-Americans. My younger brother and I were expected to do better than good. Our parent…