Jack’s Winning Words 1/10/20
“What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.”  (Meryl Streep)  Today, Jan 10, is Peculiar People Day, a day to celebrate that which makes you, you and me, me.  We each have our quirks, our oddities…and our personal strengths  Douglas Malloch wrote a poem…Be the Best of Whatever You Are.  In other words, if you can’t be a tree, be a bush…but be the best little bush!  Let’s build on our peculiarities.  Let’s determine to be the best of whatever we are.   ;-)  Jack

FROM ER IN MN:  I like this one!!! So true for us all, but especially speaks to me.  Thanks! ===JACK:  Here's the poem that I referred to.  It can have applications in the workplace, in school and in our personal life.   BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE - Douglas Malloch
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley — but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass —
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail —
Be the best of whatever you are!

FROM HONEST JOHN:  I have often wondered if there was a normal person out there...if so, wouldn’t it be interesting to meet that person.===JACK:  Was Jesus that "normal" person, what God intended us to be?  I suppose my words are another heresy.===JOHN: It is almost humorous to think of Jesus as the one “normal” person...interesting thought...probably right

FROM JT IN SJ:  How do you do it?  Every day a new and unique and memorable thought ===JACK:  I'm not a muskie, so I try to be a lively bass.

FROM TAMPA SHIRL:   Of course!===JACK:  You seem always to have given it your best in whatever your choices.

FROM KF IN WB:  Good advice.===JACK:  If I were nosy I would ask how the advice might affect your life...but I'm not.===KF:  I have too many quirks to enumerate... ; )

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  I’m not sure I agree.  But I’m not her.  Celebrities are worshiped now.  Weirdness definitely makes you stand out...but does that make you stronger as a person?  Not to me. ===JACK:  You're not like anybody else that I know.  Does that make you peculiar?  I think so.