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MATTER WHAT, VOLUMES ONE AND TWO, tells the life story of Dr. David
Goodwin from his birth to his retirement from the mental health profession at
age sixty three.
Goodwin's tells
of his difficulty in dealing with his childhood education and his dislike of
academia in general. However, he managed to overcome his early educational
difficulties eventually earning a bachelors degree, two masters degrees and a
doctorate degree.
Goodwin says he
was born with horse manure in his blood and that he wanted to be a rancher and
cowboy for as long as he could remember. He spent much of his young life on
farms and wanting to spend the rest of his life in the in the saddle.
Goodwin says
that when he was a kid in high school he was privileged to spend several years
working nights as a houseparent at a school for the deaf and blind. He writes
about that experience and says it taught him to be responsible and to have
empathy for others.
Goodwin's
written work shares his early efforts to gain a military career and how the
military shaped
