Fwd: EPISODE 500 THE PERIL OF SELF-IDOLATRY

SMASH A WINE BOTTLE — GOOD SPEAKERS PROP

(A comment re: newspaper articles sent by Marjorie)

Well,  I will now be disliked…too many articles and pics about me.  Quite a

shock to see them today..  Marjorie is hard to control. 

Two years ago….Feb. 29,2020, I was about to make  speech on the

terrible condition of the Great Lakes at the Stonehooker Brewery

in Port Credit.  A fancy affair.  $100 a plate fund raiser.  Marjorie wanted

to introduce me.   She became the speaker…took 21 minutes

in the introduction, the feature of which was when she dropped an empty 

wine bottle from lectern to cement floor.  It exploded with shards of

glass going all over.  She did not even pause.  Kept on speaking while

Shaymus was gathering up glass fragments at her feet.

Of course she became the feature of the evening.  I shortened my

speech from 40 minutes to 10 minutes much to the relief of

all since I did not have an empty wine bottle to smash for attention.

The wine bottle had a label quoting Albert Einstein saying “an open

mind means a person is capable of listening to new ideas.” (My words, Einstein’s idea)

Actual Einstein words “The mind that is open to new ideas will never return

to the same size”

I had the good sense to shut up.  

alan

ps.  Please do not think I sent those newspaper articles as an

act of self-idolatry.

pps. Start reading wine bottle labels.