Herman School of Business
And The Rocket's Red Glare...
Take this three day weekend and forget your woes and enjoy your family. Pick up a book and get started on some enjoyment…not a book to learn something, make it a murder mystery or a trashy novel…something to escape into for awhile. Grab some ground beef and a pack of hot dogs and fire up some charcoal. If you remember as a child putting crepe paper in your bike spokes of red, white and blue stripes then you have to be close to sixty. Tomorrow I will be stopping by the past. There is a small community of one room houses that served as a religious retreat for people from the city who wandered out to this sanctuary to hear sermons on Sunday while rocking in chairs under a pavilion roof. In fact, the famous religious orator Billy Sunday actually spoke there many times nearly a century ago. My wife has a friend who bought one of these tiny shacks almost sixty years ago…and each summer the residents show up to go backwards in time.
There will be kids riding their bikes with sparklers and flags on the handlebars. There will be picnic food aplenty. People who don’t know each others’ names will share a grill and talk some baseball. My wife says my eyes glaze over when I talk about “Emory Grove.” As the day goes on we will be back in our own backyard where perhaps one of the kids will show up to have some cookout food on the patio.
But….the dark brings a special treat. You see, I live in Baltimore, Maryland. The home of Fort McHenry where the Star Spangled Banner was actually written by Francis Scott Key as he watched a battle from our Harbor during the War of 1812. There will be spectacular fireworks for all to see and as the colors blaze across the sky lighting up the Harbor I will hope that you are listening to the Boston Pops, watching a game on TV or falling asleep in your favorite chair on the back deck.
Tomorrow everyone take the day off. We can go back to work on Saturday!
- Posted: 3 July 2008
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- Category: Business success
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