Tuesday

A Tuesday for deeper thoughts, where inspiration can best grow. We start with reflections from several writers who bring confidence and imagery to their words. Another poet sings his way into HISTORY with a song everyone knows.

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Most writers keep journals where they can keep thoughts, quotes, or things they want to write about later; if our journals aren't close by, we have digital notebooks on our phones to capture all these thought clips for later use. Today, I will grab a few clips from the hundreds I have in various places. These ideas gave me pleasure as a lover of ideas and thoughts. Not all of these ideas are easy; these are not affirmations. These are the next level of affirmation, the bones of future affirmations.

Every morning, I read a daily passage from Bishop Fulton Sheen's book called The Wisdom of Fulton Sheen: 365 Days of Inspiration. In short, Bishop Sheen was on TV in the 50s and 60s preaching in a language that resonated with everyone. His overall message is that Life is worth living. Sheen was a Catholic Bishop, where the message was centered, but every quote is an honest reflection of the best, the worst, and the thoughts and actions of both. As a practicing Catholic taught by the Jesuits in high school, I admire and am attracted to a confident writer and speaker who lays out Life in an honest way and lets the reader and listener decide the path they want to walk.

Similar to the famous Teddy Roosevelt “Man In The Arena” speech, Sheen is telling me it's nice to learn and even do a job that requires a specific "head knowledge." the train announcers should know where all the trains are, but until you get on the trains, travel to new destinations and work with different communities, right action will only be a theory. I have to remind myself of this anytime I'm in a discussion with someone and find myself leaning on head knowledge (or being well-read) more than listening to a different point of view.

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The beauty of a non-emotional algorithm is as it sees you interacting with poetry, it will give you more poetry. A curious itch, encouraged by an algorithm, has put me into a Poetry Phase. All stories, by design, are descriptions of people, places, and things; the depth of the story and the medium used to tell the story will determine how much your imagination will have to work to interpret the story. With poetry, it ignites the most senses with the fewest words.

Mairead Small Staid, a poet and essayist, writes a Sunday Poem for The Atlantic called Rauschenberg & Johns, and in 124 words, she paints a landscape that could include an apartment you lived in, a person you lived by or with, what you do when you wake up, and what it was like to get a daily paper. I used more words to explain the poem than Staid used to write it, which makes it another beautiful read, and reason Life is Worth Living.

Looks like Christmas to my 401K!

The History Channel has a cool website feature: pick a day, and it will tell you something that happened on that day in history. Last week, it put Bruce Springsteen on October 11th, 1975, the day Springsteen's song Born to Run, cracked the top 40 and started The Boss becoming The Boss.

Born to Run - Original is still the best.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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With A Shout newsletter is written by Johnny Christian with the support of a thousand idea bits and the help of many people.

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