Friday and New Gloves

Yesterday I received a wonderful and practical blessing to start the day. It was about 37 degrees outside. Pat gave me a new pair of driving gloves.

I have approximately 3 pair of driving gloves each with a single finger of one glove with some sort of hole in it. You'd think I could make a decent pair out of three pair. I have not yet found the combination.

Very grateful and warmer; off I went.

At the 9 o'clock hour on WHAD radio Veronica Rueckert hosted a special broadcast live from the Wisconsin Book Festival at the Overture Center in Madison - the first hour of which featured the poetry slam, hip hop poets.

I was on the bypass returning from the lakeside wiping tears from my eyes. The wordsongs were so vivid. It was another recent instance of me coming home.

I called in to the radio program and got on, said my piece and brought a little tear to the program. The three young poets have gotten polished and somewhat removed from the power they bring. I was able to bring them back for a moment.

The schedule for lunch was looking a little slim and I decided not to come home. Pat though that was fine because she was winging through her list and slowing down would have meant ... slowing down.

I went to a NameBrandFastFood place and headed to the library afterward. I paged though a landscaping magazine featuring ornamental grasses and shot a few fantastic recipe pics out of the Food Network monthly magazine. Tasty looking stuff and new ideas; yum. Glad I had already eaten something.

I might spend more of my lunch times at the library.

After work at 4 pm I headed to Hartson Funeral Home right around the corner. Pat's long-time friend Donna's mother had passed. Pat would be coming on her own. We stayed through the service at 6 pm and headed, with the funeral troupe, to Meyers Restaurant for family-style fish and fried chicken. We got back home after 9 pm.

There have been too many funerals lately and it was a very long day Friday.

It's Saturday morning early as I make these notes. I wanted to look up the MP3 of the poetry slam broadcast and that poetry search led me to another radio program talking about ... well ...

Here's the FB post from Veronica Rueckert Show.
** How can changing your personal narratives change your life? World-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson tells us after 9:00 this Friday. He says the approach he writes about in "Redirect" can make you happier, reduce racial prejudice and even turn you into a better parent. Malcolm Gladwell called the book "a masterpiece." **

I ordered the Wilson book online from the library and decided to read the reader reviews at Amazon.

I really like when Wilson talks about rewriting the story in order to improve one's own life.

One reviewer was disappointed. He bought the book because of the marketing hype. While it is a fine read for social purposes it does not delve into personal change - which is what he took the hype to mean. He would not have bought the book had he peeked into it first.

But, he wrote: consider instead Martin Seligman's "Learned Optimism" or "Authentic Happiness", or Michigan State University's Gershen Kaufman's books on building self-esteem and 'personal power.'

So I ordered up some Seligman from the library as well. That is one reason I like the reader reviews on Amazon so much.

So here's the links for now. I'm going back to bed before breakfast.

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Friday 10/21/2011 9:00 AM - Veronica Rueckert  - 111021D
http://wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=rkt

My call in is approximately 43 minutes into the broadcast.

Wilson Amazon Redirect
http://www.amazon.com/Redirect-Surprising-Science-Psychological-Change/product-reviews/0316051888/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1