I’ve had a busy few weeks and have not been active here
in a while. I’m sorry!
During this period I have been busy reading and
conducting Q&A sessions at two Literary Salons mostly here in my local area.
The first one was on Old Mueller (the old airport) at the Wildfire Terrace Apartments in their Terrace
Room. We gathered around 6:30 PM and socialized for a while and started the
Reading about 7PM and afterwards shared refreshments and more social time.
I read from the chapter “Let me tell ya ‘bout Cold” and then conducted a Q&A session afterwards.
Cold is a relevant term and I hope I achieved my goal describing
the different levels of cold that one might experience over a lifetime? I’m
positive that there are very few, if any that can match my experiences in this
area. I would welcome to hear about yours if you think you can match or exceed
mine.
This was great fun and the questions from those in
attendance were fantastic. I had a fantastic time and everyone seemed to enjoy
themselves.
I even had three cousins in attendance: one first—another Howard, one
second—another
Howard but using his first name Les and one third—Les’s daughter Caroline with her boyfriend Eric. Howard
and Les had driven all the way from Cypress, TX and Caroline lives here
locally. What a surprise to see them standing outside the building waiting on
me to show so they could get inside. Catching time here and there, while trying
not to ignore everybody else, we conducted a mini family reunion. Great fun!
The book sales went fairly well also.
This past Wednesday, we conducted a very intimate session
at The Trails at Carmel Creek retirement
facility in Hutto, TX.
I had several friends and associates join me there and we
had a good representation from the facility with us also. The session followed
the same structure as above, but since it was somewhat smaller, we conducted
the entire session sitting in the lounge area instead of the grand room.
I chose to read and discuss the chapter “Kick it to the Can - Coaching the Cosmos”.
This selection is very different from the others in the book as it tells of
my first opportunity coaching a youth team in an organized soccer league.
The take-a-ways from a situation involving youth can be
exactly the same but more specific than one including adults. I believe I
learned just as much from this short duration soccer season as I ever learned
from any session with adults in similar situations.
While the session was more intimate, I did get to spend
more time with each attendee than I did in the previous session.
I thoroughly enjoyed each opportunity and welcome more of
them in the future.
See you out there at a future event!
