For the past several days, Ruth and I have been in Eagle-Vail,
Colorado, attending the graduation of our grandson, Christian Apps. Eagle-Vail is in the mountains a couple hours
west of Denver. My son, Jeff and
daughter-in-law Sandy’s family, besides Christian, includes Nick and Libby.
They live in this paradise place with deep blue skies, roaring melt-water
streams, newly leafed aspen trees and mountains all around, many of them with
snow remaining on their peaks.
We attended several graduation events for the Battle
Mountain High School graduates, about 200 of them, with the main event at the
stunningly beautiful Gerald Ford Amphitheater in Vail. We listening to a bevy of speeches, most filled with graduate advice.
One of the most impressive “advice for graduates” was
written and not spoken. It appeared in
the May 20 issue of The Vail Daily, and
was written by Chris Romer, president and CEO of the Vail Valley
Partnership. Here is some of what he
wrote:
--No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
--What other people think of you isn’t your problem.
--Don’t take yourself too seriously.
--Envy is a waste of time.
Hard work will get you what you need.
--Read more books.
Spend less time in front of screens.
--Realize that life is a school and you’re here to learn.
--Make peace with your past so it doesn’t ruin your present.
--Smile and laugh more.
--Don’t compare yourself with others; you don’t know what
their journey is all about.
--Time heals.
--Try new things.
Enjoy the moment.
Come to think of it, this advice fits more than new
graduates.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: A little advice never hurt anyone
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Writing Workshop for 2016
Telling
Your Story Workshop at The Clearing in Door County. Friday, August 12, 9-4. Call 920-854-4088 to get your name on the
list. (Still Room)
UPCOMING EVENTS.
May 26, 7:00 p.m. Richfield
Historical Society, 4128 Hubertus Road, Richfield, WI
Whispers and Shadows.
June 7, 7:00 p.m. Cambria Library. Cambria Fire Dept. Community Center, Cambria.
June 11, 9-4 Writing Workshop,
Wild Rose Library. Telling Your Story
June 14, 9:00 a.m. Keynote
speech. Country Heritage Day, St. John the Baptist Church, Montello. Barns of
Wisconsin.
June 28, 11:00 a.m. Larry Meiller Show. Wis. Public Radio. Discussion of Roshara Journal and Telling
Your Story (New Books)
June 28, Book Discussion. Mystery to Me Book Store, Madison. Details to follow. Roshara
Journal and Telling Your Story
(New Books)
July 19, 11:00 a.m., Farm
Technology Days, Snudden Farms, Lake Geneva, Walworth County. History of
Wisconsin Agriculture.
August 9, 6:30 p.m. Winnebago
County Historical Society. Oshkosh
Library. History of Wisconsin
Agriculture.
August 12 9-4, Writing Workshop,
The Clearing, Door County.
August 20, 10:30-11:30 am. Waupaca Annual Arts on the Square.
Purchase Jerry’s DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial
Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin (a fundraiser for them):
The
library now has aable signed copies of Jerry’s DVDs:
Emmy Winner, A
Farm Winter with Jerry Apps (based
on The Quiet Season book.)
Jerry Apps a Farm Story (based on Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old
Farm books.)
The Land with Jerry Apps, (based on the book Whispers and
Shadows.)
Also
aable are several of Jerry’s signed books including: Jerry’s newest novel, The Great Sand Fracas of Ames
County. and Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
Contact the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson Memorial Library
500 Division Street
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