Our Song is individual
Our Song is varied
Our Song has different tunes
Our Song has multiple verses
Our Song has different meanings
But Our Refrain
OUR REFRAIN
is the same
We are walking each’s other Home
WE ARE WALKING EACH’S OTHER HOME
N E V E R
n e v e r
NEVERMORE TO BE EVER ALONE
Pumpkin PATCH’ED
We’ve all heard Charlie Brown’s
THE GREAT PUMPKIN
which
hard to believe
came out in 1959. . .
The Great Pumpkin is a holiday figure in whom only Linus van Pelt believes. According to Linus, the Great Pumpkin flies around bringing toys to sincere and believing children on Halloween evening. Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch (a place Linus believes is the most sincere and lacking in hypocrisy) on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. Invariably, the Great Pumpkin fails to turn up, but a humiliated yet undefeated Linus stubbornly vows to wait for him again the following Halloween. Linus acknowledges the similarities between the Great Pumpkin and Santa Claus, the existence of which Linus considers to be ambiguous (in the television special, Linus tells Charlie Brown he’ll stop believing in the Great Pumpkin when Charlie Brown stops believing in Santa Claus, while writing to the Great Pumpkin that Santa Claus has better publicity). Charlie Brown attributes Linus’s belief in the Great Pumpkin to “denominational differences”. . .
My favorite quote from THE GREAT PUMPKIN
is near the end when Linus proclaims:
“THERE ARE THREE THINGS I HAVE LEARNED TO NEVER DISCUSS WITH PEOPLE: RELIGION, POLITICS, AND THE GREAT PUMPKIN.”
There are a lot of lessons that can be learned
walking around in a Pumpkin Patch. . .
There’s lots of different sizes, shapes and forms of age and decline
Maybe one of the greatest one:
WE ARE HERE FOR THE CHOOSING
AND TO BE CHOSEN
A N D
when it’s time to
G O
it’s always better
HAND in HAND
The Worst Thing Survey
Hand in Hand
we go. . .
or not. . .
The survey won’t lie,
will it. . .
Are you ready:
What’s the worst thing someone could say about you
about your life’s vocational choice:
A) YOU DIDN’T DO YOUR JOB
B) YOU DIDN’T DO YOUR JOB WELL
Maybe there should be a
C
category. . .
There are studies out there that basically states:
NOBODY C A R E S. . .
We chronically confuse the feeling of effort with
the reality of results. . .
Psychologists have long noticed what’s sometimes been called
THE LABOR ILLUSION
and it kind of rains on your Labor Day Picnic;
The Theory:
When it comes to judging other people’s work,
we might say we’re focused only on whether they did a good job
quickly and well–
but really we want to feel they wore themselves out for us. . .
For me it goes back into my history
that has always had me believing
the harder I work,
the happier I make others. . .
It was how I first tired to impress my parents
and then my supervisors
and then my co-workers
and then my friends
and now. . .
So how do you answer the survey?
Would you be hurt if people called you lazy
if they accused you of not working hard
or would you take more offense
not working well
. . .or smart?
Maybe there really should be a
C
option:
C) HE DOESN’T CARE
Maybe that would be the most offensive thing
that could be said of you
your work
your ethic. . .
The old cliche
could hauntingly be true:
PEOPLE DON’T CARE HOW MUCH YOU KNOW
UNTIL THEY KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CARE
There was an actual survey taken
which posed the question:
WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION
A FOLLOWER ASKS OF THEIR LEADER?
You would think it would have to do with
vision
success
going somewhere
accomplishing something
some kind of
A C T I O N
H O W E V E R
The most requested
and the number one question
of followers about the Leader was
DOES THE LEADER CARE FOR ME
The survey showed that followers wanted to know more
about the fact that the Leader
C a r e d
than the fact the Leader was
C o m p e t e n t
or that the Leader
could take them to a higher level. . .
They just wanted to know
before they fell in line:
DOES THE LEADER CARE FOR ME ?
So. . .
what say you?
How do you answer the survey?
A) YOU DON’T DO YOUR JOB
B) YOU DON’T DO YOUR JOB WELL
C) YOU DON’T CARE
Which would be the worst someone could accuse you?
Maybe the only way to truly to answer the Survey
is to merely
E L I M I N A T E I T
simply being
A Caring Catalyst
enough to never even have to pose the survey
Maybe. . .
it just comes to down to your
i n t e n t i o n:
A) MAKE MONEY
B) SECURE BENEFITS
C) S E R V E
or to just
unequivocally
undoubtedly
unhesitantly
untiringly
unendingly
with every opportunity afforded,
and when an opportunity was present. . .
Y O U
created i t
What say y o u ?
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, , ,
what d o you ?