Thoughts and stories, by Pal

 I know Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, and he is as true and good as any human on this earth! Elder Holland: What They Heard is Not What He Said By  Daniel C. Peterson  · September 7, 2021 Cover image via the Church Newsroom. To read more insights from Daniel, visit his blog:  Sic Et Non . Between my first arrival on campus in the fall of 1970 and my retirement on 1 July 2021—a span of fifty-one years—all but approximately eight years were spent as a member of either the student body or the faculty of Brigham Young University.  I say this not for nostalgia’s sake, and not even because my now-advanced age and the sheer length of that elapsed period amaze me, though they do.  (Jacob’s words, at the end of his life and of the book that bears his name, in which he writes that “the time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a dream” [Jacob 7:26] resonate with me more and more.)  I say it because it suggests how very long it has been since I first fell in lov