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Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
It finally happened! I passed up Laura in absolute pounds lost 42.6 on Jenny Craig to 41 something… it doesn’t matter that she is a mere slip of a girl and her percentage is huge… it’s absolute pounds that mattter! ha! I was worried as I ate huge at Karen’s track banquet at USC… on Sunday.
I lost 6 pounds in the weeks ahead of Jenny… so 48 is my real total… but no matter… it was a good week in dropping 6.2 lbs.
Roger Freberg
Okay, time to talk about fashion and the mulitbillion dollar industry that is not about ‘inner beauty’. ( I love that line… by Nigel in ‘the Devil wears Prada’)
As with many people, we don’t know what we like until we see it, touch it, feel it… or in the case of my wife and daughters… until they try it on and some one shouts,”dah-ling, you look so ravashing… wonderful… you must have it!”
As I am now playing ‘Nigel’ to the women in my life… it brings me to another line I have used and enjoy,” you will take what I give you… and you will like it!” It ends discussion right away.
This brings me now to Kenneth Cole… who’s simple styling is timeless and tells a great story… anyone who can sell 40,000 pairs of shoes out the back end of a trailer in 2 1/2 days to get the business started… is very cool. Here’s an exerpt:
“…With Kenneth Cole Productions painted on the side of the truck, we parked at 1370 6th Avenue, across from the New York Hilton, the day of shoe show. We opened for business with a fully furnished 40 ft trailer, a director (Sometimes there was film in the camera, sometimes there wasn’t), models as actresses, and two of New York’s finest, compliments of Mayor Koch, as our doormen. We sold 40 thousand pairs of shoes in two and a half days (the entire available production) and we were off and running.”
Oh… I did buy a few things of his … and they will like it!
Roger Freberg
Years ago, Mason Weaver came to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to speak…. and there begins a tale.
Mason’s talk was exactly the same as the title of his book…” It’s ok to leave the plantation.” His appearance at Cal Poly resulted in the threatened expulsion of a young college student Steven Hinkle, national media discussion on the value of ‘free speech’ and finally the vilification of Cal Poly and much taxpayer money given to Steven Hinkle.
Mason describes his book “It’s ok to leave the plantation”:
“Wisdom does not come from surviving but from thriving. This book discusses some of the family and environmental contributions that led to my change from liberal to conservative. It also discusses how Black Americans came from slavery to freedom.” “It’s OK To Leave The Plantation examines the ‘Plantation mentality’ that still plagues us today. The Plantation Mentality is a system that discourages independence and character and encourages reliance on masters or appointed tribal chiefs in our community.”
Mason may not change your views… but he may give you a new way to look on what really is ‘help’ and what really ‘works’ in our society.
Mason returned to Cal Poly last night after a number of years in what could be called his ‘triumphal return.’ It was ‘Mason Weaver Day at Cal Poly’… an annual event.
Roger Freberg
In our globally competitive world, couples and families will succeed best if each strives to be all they can be and lends a helping hand to each other.
Roger Freberg
I’ve seen John Smith around… he’s everywhere track and field … and sports … happens to go. John is a former world record holder in the quarter mile. He’s successful and so is his family…. but he is… well… a “Bruin”. I ran into John at the annual Southern California Trojan Track Banquet where one of his relatives was accepting a prestigious award.
We both got a laugh at the fact that two former Bruin Track Captains were at a Trojan event.
Fight on!
Roger Freberg
