One day I broke away from the conversation after lunch and saw this establishment just a few doors down from the restaurant - in fact on our way to the park where the last few posts were captured. An idea taken from Japan, this is a hotel where you can rent a sleeping pod for an hour or night to catch some Z's. Very interesting concept, and dense - literally - with lucrative potential. Think it's a great idea.
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[continued from previous post; series started 05/09]
You know, I suppose we all need affirmation once in a while...something in life that tells us that what we do and why we're here is worthwhile after all. Especially for those of us who are basically insecure, the moments and events that tell us we're OK really stand out along the pathway of life's journey. Unbeknownst to her, Cheryl Smith provided such a moment after I'd left radio in the Golden Triangle.
We maintained a friendship and wrote letters back and forth for a couple of years. In fact, it was the summer after my first year of college that she wrote and revealed what she'd done for an English class assignment (she was a senior in high school at the time). The assignment was to write about someone who'd been a positive influence in her life, then read it out loud in front of the class. I was the subject of that essay, but would never have learned about this were it not for the fact that one of my old Riverside buddies from Orange, Mike Welton, happened to be sitting in that very class. Until that time they didn't know each other or that I was a mutual friend. And as a sidebar regarding coincidences, this was at a school in a nearby town that neither of us had attended before.
So it is that this world is small, what goes around comes around (the #1 rule of the the universe), and, for better or worse, our actions and influence reach far beyond what we might imagine when they occur.
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