Art Fettig ARCHIVES Home Page | About | Poems | Music | Videos
This little section goes way back. It was 1976 when I first started writing good things about America as a part of my PROGRAMS America. At that time I figured there was certainly enough good stuff about America to last me a lifetime. People just naturally stood up for The Star Spangled Banner and we didn’t make clothes out of the American flag. Most everyone flew the flag right side up and we didn’t have breaking news on half a dozen TV stations keeping folks all riled up about things back then. We didn’t have Facebook and Twitter and a hundred other social networks where a story might get a million hits in a day and the stock market didn’t zoom up and down like a couple of little playful kids were running it. In 1976 Gerald Ford was President and he rode on our Grand Trunk Western Railroad campaigning with speeches at station stops. I shot photos of him with our railroad president on his private car with just the wives, his chief surgeon and the other photographer present. I sure felt “something good” that day having that honor.
What if I asked you, the reader, to tell me something good about America right now? What would you say? Would the good things come a pouring out of your mouth and right from your soul? Me? I’m starting a list from scratch to see if I can name five things. Then ten. Then twenty. Then a hundred. I won’t qualify my answers with a “Yes, but…”
Recommended Reading
The Platinum Rule by Art Fettig
The Age Old Secret to Happiness and Prosperity. If you believe in the Golden Rule then, just maybe, you are one of those fortunate few who are ready to take a giant step forwaqrd in your lives to fame, fortune and a great new plateau of personal satisfaction.
Art Fettig has identified a little known key to wealth and happiness in his book The Platinum rule. I hope that millions of people discover this little book and apply this giving formula. Trul their lives will be enriched and certainly this will be a better world.” – The Wickman Formula, Executive Press 1991
Leave a Reply