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Chapter Two

Recently, I was honored to be the guest speaker at a testimonial dinner. I remember how good I felt as I began to address the audience. It had been a while since I had given this type of speech. As I started speaking, I surveyed the audience. “Yes!” I thought, “Two hundred guests at my beck and call.” What a deal for an ego-maniac with an inferiority complex. These people were mine, all mine, trapped in a huge room with me holding the microphone.

Pretty twisted, huh? You bet. Little did I know that soon the joke would be on me. As I began to talk and warm up the group, I heard loud voices in the background, but I chose to ignore them. I could tell they were coming from the kitchen and I presumed they would stop pretty quickly. There isn’t much that will confuse me, but on occasion I can be thrown off base by an interruption. It wasn’t the actual noise in the background. It came into a small vestibule and then into the main room, which made it reverberate like a megaphone into the room I was in. The reverb was louder than my microphone. I was being drowned out. So now we had an egomaniac with an inferiority complex that was unable to speak his powerful words. My mind went blank.

Minding Mother Nature

When you go to a movie, you willingly suspend your beliefs for an hour or two. I’m only a  ...Read More