THE IDLE AMERICAN

Accounts of folks “pulling themselves up by their boot straps” warm hearts; when such is done without boots, it’s a whole ‘nuther thing.

“Wholeness” was achieved in January when Brian Janak received a phone call he didn’t expect from a half-brother he didn’t know he had. It will take the waters of many rivers to wash away the tears resulting from that call.

I’ve known Brian--now a licensed Houston c…