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Friday, June 12, 2026. Those who have followed me for any length of time know how much I enjoy listening to old time radio or as they say, ear paintings from yesteryear. On our way back from Louisiana the wife was able to use her phone to tune in to some recorded series from back in the 1940's. She put them on the radio in the car and the ones she chose were back to back detective programs from popular series back in the day. I do get into listening and seeing what I conjure up as the program progresses. I even enjoy the commercials, typically, for products that no longer exists. I did become so focused on one episode of the show starring the master detective Nero Wolfe that I nearly ran through a red light. I did stop but I will admit I was slightly jutting out into the intersection. That prompted my riding partner to take immediate action to end my listening enjoyment. I will have to dream up my own ending to that particular program because she informed me that running red lights was not to be tolerated. She did. She really did. I was so nice about it. I don't think I even reminded her of her recent black out spell where she actually hit another driver. I was so kind not to even mention it. The radio programs cause an interesting thing to occur. One has to think and imagine the action taking place. Orson Welles called it the theater of the mind. And, that it is. There are literally hundreds of preserved recordings of old time radio programs on a variety of streaming platforms. Check them out. I leave the subject with this comment: "I have long thought, and still think, that radio is magic. Television is
OK, but radio is magic. If television had been invented first and
then
radio had come along, people would think, 'What a wonderful thing this
radio is! It's like television except you don't have to look at it!'"
~Charles Osgood, 1989
I visit by phone with our eldest nearly every day. We talk about all that's going on in his world including the work world where it is always challenging. One of the things I gather from our daily discussions is how the more things change it is the more they stay the same. Technology may change but people issues which are still the heart of any operation, well, they are just that, people issues. So much of what he deals with seem to be identical to things I've dealt with in the past, you know, been there and done that. One of the things I try to do is to input some learned wisdom since I no longer deal with the workplace. What kind of wisdom? For me, it has to do with me being more understanding, less judgemental, and, perhaps being more flexible. People have been people since God created Adam. And, I quickly add they have been fallen people, born sinners, since Adam chose to listen to Eve. That's just the truth, period. (Read the first three chapters in the Book of Genesis.) Because of that, I think perhaps in my many years of managing people I could have offered a more caring spirit when dealing with people issues. I also could have remembered me, myself, and I, when others failed to hit the mark, so to speak. You know. Live and learn. I can't go back and change some of the ways I handled things, but, I can pass down some of what I have learned. One example. I told him the other day what a fellow manager said to me one day, "Buddy, I like you and you have a great reputation, but, sometimes you need to think about this: Who died and left you in charge?" That helped me. Humility will go a long way folks. It will. It really will. And, it happens to occupy much within the pages of God's Holy Word. It does. It really does. Y'all enjoy your Friday, Saturday, and, make an effort on the First Day of the Week, Sunday, to show up at the meeting place where believers gather to worship the Lord and learn more from His Word.
Amen.
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