I sent an e-mail to Bob Linsenmayer recalling his service honoring his mentor and guide for his musical career of reaching out to others, Pete Seeger. He told me that he'd received a personal letter from the folk music icon when he sent a letter to him. Apparently, he did that to all who wrote him. Amazing. Well, he died yesterday, not six days after he was chopping wood at his home, at the age of 94.
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At the end of the day, we watched the State of the Union speech, Barack Obama's 5th, and he concluded it with mention of the amazing recovery and ongoing rehabilitation (for his lifetime) of this sergeant, grievously injured in a roadside bombing. He received a standing ovation as he stood next to the First Lady for a full two minutes by all the assembled. Extraordinary. And Obama's point?: Never give up and nothing that is worthwhile is easy, you have to work for it.
Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg's story of courage, struggle and survival had the entire room in a standing ovation near the end of the State of the Union address Tuesday — as President Obama recognized one of the nation's wounded heroes as a symbol for the country's own resilience.
This is trivial but essential, I believe, for I thought of this moving event as I shoveled the driveway this morning in a chill wind and thought, I'm not going to give up until the work is complete. Sure, it's not comfortable but anything that is worthwhile is never easy, you just have to keep working at it. So many times in my life, I have given up because it was the easy thing to do. Maybe, no more. This is "baby step" start but it can be built upon. It must be to become like that young man in the picture above and his father next to him, battlers each day to get better and always, always believe in one another. Like Ron's phone call yesterday, "I was thinking about you and wanted to talk." It is so precious to know that something like lifelong friendship cannot be taken for granted, for life is fickle and fleet and you just never know. So, that phone call meant a lot, just as the hours of therapy has brought Sgt. Remsburg back and will continue offer progress.
Sgt. First Class Cory Remsburg's story of courage, struggle and survival had the entire room in a standing ovation near the end of the State of the Union address Tuesday — as President Obama recognized one of the nation's wounded heroes as a symbol for the country's own resilience.
This is trivial but essential, I believe, for I thought of this moving event as I shoveled the driveway this morning in a chill wind and thought, I'm not going to give up until the work is complete. Sure, it's not comfortable but anything that is worthwhile is never easy, you just have to keep working at it. So many times in my life, I have given up because it was the easy thing to do. Maybe, no more. This is "baby step" start but it can be built upon. It must be to become like that young man in the picture above and his father next to him, battlers each day to get better and always, always believe in one another. Like Ron's phone call yesterday, "I was thinking about you and wanted to talk." It is so precious to know that something like lifelong friendship cannot be taken for granted, for life is fickle and fleet and you just never know. So, that phone call meant a lot, just as the hours of therapy has brought Sgt. Remsburg back and will continue offer progress.
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