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RIDING HAMPTON'S ``FLYING HORSES'' A HAPPY ADVENTURE.(LOCAL)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20010817
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER

My down-to-earth mother used to maintain that any grownup who didn't have a healthy dash of ungelled childhood in his or her makeup wasn't worth the trouble of knowing.

That was her unsophisticated way of expressing the same profound sentiment that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the great German poet, playwright and novelist, declared shortly before his death. When he was asked to define the guiding principle of his long and richly rewarding life, he replied: ``I have never lost my sense of wonder.'' And that sage observation is a fitting ...

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