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Ever since this Corona virus thing started I’ve been searching for how I can get something good out of this mess. I want to learn something I didn’t know, something I didn’t know about myself and about others. For years now I have been saying that for every bad thing that happens, an opportunity appears where you can then make something good happen. Well for one thing, for some time I have been hearing the challenge, “Stay at home.” Golly, have we stayed at home. I quit shaving.
Oh I have done that a few times before in my life but never long enough to grow enough facial hair that I wouldn’t shave off the first time we were going out in public.
I’ve been staying at home so long now that I have a real mess on my face. I was visiting The Poet’s Walk at Ayr Mount here in Hillsborough for several months before Covid-19 struck, greeting walkers or joggers going by me and offering to read to them one of my poems. It has been a wonderful experience and now as I look at this scrubby beard of mine I am starting to suspect that I am looking more and more like an old coot that might walk up to someone on the Poet’s Walk and offer to read them a poem.
Maybe I haven’t been taking that role as seriously as I should have. Who knows, maybe this whole thing has given me the gift of insight. This new look might help me pause and think a little bit before I speak. And If I work on this these coming days when they repeat that request, “Just stay home” I might develop a smile on my face and with luck I might somehow be blessed with the gift of wisdom and then discover the joy of giving. And who knows, I just might live happily ever after.
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
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