Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
Originally published July 20, 2009
In This Issue
o Celebrating Eighty
o Say Something Good
o Points To Ponder
o A Little Humor
o Quote of the Week
Celebrating Eighty
I figure that the only reason I have lived to celebrate my 80th birthday is the fact that in 1954 I quit my three packs a day cigarette smoking habit and then in 1961 I gave up alcohol. I figure either one of those habits might have done me in. Now my addiction seems to be writing. It was wonderful having all my family together and nice to share with them my new book The Old Man and the CD. In Battle Creek we had loads of illegal fireworks and a couple of the hot air balloons swooped down low to wave to our party and signal the ending of an awesome day. Bring on another challenging decade, I’m ready.
Say Something Good
There is so much that can be said about Michigan and since my recent visit to Traverse City and Petoskey. I realize that although I lived in Michigan for over seventy years there is a whole lot of that state that I have overlooked. We drove sixteen scenic miles from Traverse City north on the Old Mission Road and visited the Old Mission Inn built in 1869 and the old store and then headed up to Lighthouse Park. it was a wonderful experience. It is so good to get off the main highway now and then and see the rest of the world.
May God bless all America and keep our troops from harm.
Points To Ponder
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. St. Francis De Sales
A Little Humor
My grandson told me that the other night he had a date with a girl who explained that she never kisses on a first date sohe asked her if she ever kissed on the last date.
Quote of the Week
Accept everything about yourself — I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end — no apologies, no regrets. Clark Moustakas