The opening scene of the movie Chisum with John Wayne shows him sitting on his horse atop a hill, overlooking his kingdom, as one of his friends rides up to get him for the trip into town. What follows is a dialogue about change, and it ran through my mind Friday evening.
The friend asks Wayne, as Chisum, if he’s thinking about the beginning. Chisum answers by saying, “And before.”
The friend then lists all of the changes he’s seeing and says, “Too many changes.” Chisum answers, “Things usually change for the better.”
There is little need at this point to go through all of the changes we’ve seen in Clemson this week.