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From: Russ Hicks
Date: 10/20/02
Time: 9:17:03 PM
Remote Name: 12.212.230.104
Hi John,
ME? A storyteller? Man, coming from you, that is one of the highest compliments I can imagine! You have played such a key roles - actually many roles - in my life. I remember that awful time in Houston where you made me enter that "stuttering contest" where I only won SECOND place! You assured me that if I survived, nothing worse could ever happen to me again. I barely survived, but you were absolutely correct. That single incident taught me I could survive anything. That was key event in my life.
I also remember our conversations in Denver when we ate at that little coffee shop on the outdoor mall. You made me feel so very important, just being with you. I'll never forget that.
Your windshield wiper story sticks with me to this day as a lesson to us all about how vastly we can blow insignificant events totally out of proportion. One of us - maybe BOTH of us - need to turn that into a Toastmaster speech. There is a profound lesson in life in that story.
I imagine that you may have possibly almost forgotten all three of those events. At the time, they were all kind of ordinary events in your life - but they all had a profound effect on me. It goes to prove Lee Reeve's contention that he has repeated over and over. "You never know who you touch."
You have made such a difference in my life, John. I want you to know that.
Thank you...
Russ