Knowledge
July 21, 2009
“Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information on it.”
-Samuel Johnson
LOL
July 20, 2009
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
- Victor Borge
My meeting with “Uncle” Cronkite
July 19, 2009
I was with my aunt and uncle and their two granddaughters when I got news Walter Cronkite had passed away. One friend texted me the information and another one e-mailed a nice note.
In 2000, while working at the ABC affiliate in Corpus Christi, I had the chance to interview Walter Cronkite. A photographer snapped a nice photo, which I treasure to this day. Since then, I have proudly handed out copies of the photo and even got a call in 2001 from Cronkite’s personal assistant inquiring about the photo.
In one postcard I labeled him “Uncle” Walter Cronkite, obviously those unfamiliar with the term of endearment to reference Cronkite really thought I was related to the most trusted man in America. I am still trying to set the record straight on that one.
Following my interview I ran into my great-uncle Preston Doughty. The meeting was the missing link to finding information and photos of my biological father. I believe it’s that kind of miracle energy that is present and possible through people like Walter Cronkite. Surely, God works His will and shines through the Cronkites of the world.
I have a bag of tapes at work, I had been searching for my raw interview with Walter Cronkite. It’s still lost but I’m glad to have the photo of that magical interview.
Honesty
July 19, 2009
“Our lives improve only when we take
chances ~ and the first and most
difficult risk we can take is to be
honest with ourselves.”
- Walter Anderson
Dig deep
July 18, 2009
“I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who
started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the
answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do
that I can’t do.”
- Dean Graziosi
True to self
July 17, 2009
“You cannot be true to God or to anyone
else until you are true to yourself.”
- Sr. Jeanne Koma, H.M.
Winners
July 16, 2009
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will,
and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking
thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or
what they can’t do.”
- Dennis Waitley
Kind words
July 15, 2009
“Kind words can be short and easy to
speak, but their echoes are truly
endless.”
- Mother Teresa
Laugh
July 15, 2009
“You can increase your brain power three- to fivefold simply by
laughing and having fun before working on a problem.”
- Doug Hall
Struggle
July 14, 2009
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.”
- Frederick Douglass
