ADMIRATION. I have admired many people. I have always considered myself a crooked tree, so straight trees earned my respect. Indeed, we should remember what happens to us before Christmas when we set out to buy a Christmas tree. Rows of lovely trees, and all of them look terrific from a distance, but close up, none of them really meets our desire for an ideal tree. One is too thin, another crooked, the third too short, and so on. It's the same with people; no doubt some of them seemed so imposing to me because I did nto know them better, while I knew my own defects only too well.