Jack’s Winning Words 1/19/15
“If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, keep moving forward.”  (MLK,Jr)  My mother-in-law used to say to her piano students: “The longest journey begins with a single step.”  If MLK Jr had been wearing a Fitbit on the Selma March, it would have shown 108,000 steps.  But there are still many steps to take before all inequalities are done away with.  So, let’s “Keep movin’ forward!”    ;-)  Jack

FROM EDUCATOR PAUL:  Wise words!====JACK:  Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are three of my favorite books of the Bible.  They're sometimes referred to as, the Books of Wisdom. ===PAUL:  I can see why.

FROM HONEST JOHN:  The decision to enter the war in Vietnam was a disaster.   It effectively killed the civil rights movement...ended the struggle for justice and ultimately brought on the right wing backlash that still plagues us.   We need to take some steps to turn back to a way of thinking that grew up in the fifties and early sixties.   Of course, it would be a synthesis in Hegelian terms. ====JACK:  You are really an optimist, thinking that "people" can think and act rationally.  Oops!  God was an optimist, too, when he thought-up Jesus.====JOHN:  I think we can make small strides every now and then to make the world better and we can never give up that hope because God cares enuf for us to send His Son.

FROM SHARIN' SHARON:  Actually "Keep moving forward" is what I've been encouraging my mother-in-law to do. She can't fly, run or walk but she can optimistically still breathe, actually just occurred to me right now that she can still optimistically "look forward" to something good so everyone is called to come forward with whatever strength God has given us. Martin Luther King, Jr., WW are very encouraging!!!!====JACK:  Each day presents us with a choice...Am I going to move ahead, go backward, or just march in place?  As the Drill Sgt shouts..."Forward march!"

FROM TARMART REV:  Moving on, step by step in Willmar, MN, Jack!! Or . . . as a builder would say, board by board . . . a brick layer, brick by brick . . . a draftsman, inch by inch!!====JACK:  Is the "march" remembered or observed in northern Minnesota, or is the talk about ice-fishing?  ====REV:  School dismissed, public offices closed and banks closed as well I believe.====JACK:  3 cheers for Willmar!

FROM HUNGRY HOWIE:  These words and others were quoted last evening at the United We walk event. It was very well done and I thought well attended.====JACK:  I've already picked out the Winning Words I want to use next year for MLK Jr Day.

FROM CHESTER THE GOOD:  During my entire tour of duty in the USMC, I never heard the command, "Backward, March."====JACK:  There's an interesting book by Charles Hall called, "The Man Who Lived Backwards."  Think what it would be like to live your life backwards.  Tomorrow, you'd wake up to find yourself a day younger, but everyone else would be a day older.  Then, that experience happens, day after day, year after year.  Think of the complications.

FROM PEPPERMINT MARY:  put one foot in front of the other...====JACK:  So...that's how it works!

FROM BLAZING OAKS:  THIS QUOTE WAS USED IN OUR NEWSPAPER TODAY. SUCH A GOOD ONE.  HE WAS CERTAINLY A PERSUASIVE INDIVIDUAL. WE MET HIM ONCE IN CHICAGO....BILL WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH HIS SINCERITY~! HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY HIS WORK WILL  BE COMPLETED BY PEACE LOVING  INDIVIDUALS,,, MEANWHILE WE EACH DO OUR PART TO FOSTER BETTER RACE RELATIONS. OFTEN DISCOURAGING!!====JACK:  I'd say...OFTEN CHALLEGING!