Sometimes I think that what I think about as "my ideas" are really just fragments of song lyrics floating in my head. Of course I thought of a few with your keep on keeping on (end of Blues Power Derek & The Dominoes)

siggy47

I look around and wonder how life got away from me. Just keep on keeping on…

And your Dad sounds like a hell of a guy but as you say, the product of a time and situation.

mostly_harmless

Low Time Preference When You Don’t Have Much Time Left

- A lyric that always stuck in my head when I was young was “no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” I think of that a lot now

I look around and wonder how life got away from me. Just keep on keeping on…

And your Dad sounds like a hell of a guy but as you say, the product of a time and situation.