Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo – October 24, 2011
In This Issue
- Crossroad of a Million Private Lives
- Say Something Good
- Points To Ponder
- A Little Humor
- Quote of the Week
Crossroad of a Million Private Lives
“Grand Central Station, crossroad of a million private lives.” When I was a kid growing up in Michigan there was a radio show I sometimes listened to and it began with that above statement. Each week they performed a drama presentation about just one of those lives. I recall, years later when I had a booking in New York City a now famous speaker named Mark Hanson took me into Grand Central Station and he said to me, “Say something, Art.” So I said, “Something.” and Mark said, “OK, now you can put in your brochure that you spoke in Grand Central Station.” Different strokes for different folks. The point is, there are a whole lot of different approaches to the truth.
So much of what we read and hear on TV and on the Internet is some form of truth stretched way beyond its natural boundaries. Listening to the political debates recently was well on the way to being disgusting and then listening to the President bending facts in his bus tour of North Carolina made me wish that hidden in the bushes somewhere here in America is a leader who might emerge and lead this nation of ours on to that greatness that America deserves for its future. With a current population of 312,465,793 you’d think we could come up with at least one keeper.
Say Something Good
Autumn Leaves are doing their thing here in North Carolina and Jean and I drove over to Asheville in the mountains and then swung over to Mt. Airy for their big festival and even though we were perhaps a week early for that full color just the same we had us a ball. I played spoons with a jug band, sat down on my portable stool and sipped on one of them Coco Bongos frozen fruit drinks as served in a famous night club in Cancun, Mexico only this one was handed to me by a fellow who ran a drink stand and assured me it was alcohol free. Then while I was sipping a lady ran up to him with a camera and he asked if I minded if he shot a little video of my drinking his drink. I said sure, took a deep sip, held it up, smiled and said, “Now that’s a cracker.”
As Almost Andy, I had a dozen Adventures in just a few blocks and the leaves were a special bonus but the most joyous part of all was meeting so many precious North Carolina people. May God bless America and bring our troops home safely.
Points to Ponder
If every Man and Woman would work for four Hours each Day on something useful, that Labor would produce sufficient to procure all the Necessities and Comforts of Life, Want and Misery would be banished out of the World, and the rest of the 24 hours might be Leisure and Pleasure. Benjamin Franklin
A Little Humor
If the Republicans keep this up Obama might have to run unopposed.
Quote of the Week
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. Jack Canfield
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