"Pinnacle of Endeavors"

PREFACE

- From an actor's log, as dreamed, 2:00 AM -

It was such a nice little dream to be living! [It was our dreamer's agent on the phone.]

“Good news”, she said. “Remember that thing you recorded and sent off to Kalmenson & Kalmenson yesterday? Well, they just called to let me know they picked you. It works tomorrow… And it’s even bigger than we thought. You're going to be their national spokesperson.”

Dear Cleat,

Fait Accompli: Your yesterday was such a good one. You're entitled. But I know you wonder...

How in the world does da harv profess to know what my yesterday was like? He wasn’t there with me, yet, he told me so with a great degree of conviction, I found myself with a rather dynamic thought pattern taking hold. What if he was pulling one of his father’s tricks on me? …Nah, couldn’t be, I thought. This morning, I awakened with da harv’s words with me. It proved to be another of his tricks. It was only a dream after all. Like the man said, “I was living a dream”!

Well, Cleat, what if this little missive turned out to be miraculously almost totally true? What if you found out:

“It’s Never Too Late For Dreams”?

Live and perceive

Without those attempting to deceive

You’ve become a dream taker

An intellectual plumber

Letting your brain rain

Building esteem

Not theirs… Yours

To have and to hold onto

These are forever yours

Lifelong dreams

Coming true

Asking yourself

How high is high

When your life’s goals are an incline

Your future is a measurement

An ever-growing pinnacle

A place where dreams

Endlessly come true

Pleasant dreams my friend!

- HK -

P.S. Don’t hesitate. Don’t stop your climb. The degree of difficulty and time it takes to reach a success pinnacle is relative to one’s mindset. And as my dear friend Albert discovered: it’s all relative. All pinnacles are there to be raised! Think about it. Maybe a dream or two might help. It wouldn't, shouldn't, couldn't, hurt.

Harvey Kalmenson

"Our Lovelorn Society"

If it has become your intent, or you have succumbed to the wholesale indignity of suffering through the slings and arrows of what is referred to as the entertainment industry, then I beg of you: try breathing.

I beg of you

Then I beg of you again

Try breathing

Between you and nature alone

A time for additional stress, perhaps

A time to further one’s self-being

A must

A time to bring balance back to life

Yours truly, you’ve found

Once again

Performance and balance

What comes back

Was never lost

Merely unrecognized

Unrequited love

Maybe your balance in life

- HK -

June 2023

 

From a book by Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe
Copyright 2007

None of us are completely alone; at least it’s what I perceive to be an accurate assumption. So, the fact I have spent many of my years in what people refer to as “show business” probably blows my credibility out of whatever body of water you choose to place it in.

Well, whether I have credibility or not, I choose to think Albert Einstein does have a few notches in his belt. When I see a picture of him taken in the same year I was born, for whatever reason, it brings a smile.

Somewhere during my time of life, it has become apparent to me that breathing deeply from time to time helps my life stay somewhat in balance. Because of an athletic knee, riding a bike has become a touch adventurous to handle. (I’ve attempted to hire a couple of secret service guys away from the president, but for whatever reason, they haven’t answered as yet.)

Happily, I take this opportunity to announce to the world, I found a better than adequate replacement for Albert's bike. I read books each and every day of the week. Balance in my life is generated by the books I choose to read. It gives me a feeling of moving forward with my life. The history of our country is overpowering.

They say, “Motion is lotion”. But whatever you’re trying to do, a person has to be able to move. (This last sentence could be misconstrued by some.)

Word to the wise: Misconstruing or overt gestures towards the opposite sex may prove dangerous to one's lifespan. Also, words that may cause an imbalance and an inability to move forward with one's life’s endeavors: arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, self-importance, egotism, pomposity, superiority, cockiness, aka hubris.

Harvey Kalmenson

da harv, hubris-free

Source/s: "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson, Google Images

"History Shows Us"

Part of what the USA is about!

Pitchers

Catchers

Batters

Outfielders

Infielders

First & Second Stringers

Coaches

Minor League Players, too,

The Majors, as well

As those too old to play

Even little leaguers learned

To make our hearts swell

From the very beginning

An all-American story

Ours to tell

Men, women, children

Ours from the very beginning

A touching America

Codified back in 1846

Kids remaining kids

Boys and girls

Becoming men and women

All AMERICAN

North, South, East, West

Playing our game

Uniforms of blue and gray gone forever

Both sides wanted to know

What if we lost today’s game, we pray

Then the words were heard

From up above

“It’s a very long season

Not a once-each-week gesture

Or even year

Nor decade!

The world should have taken notice

Of who we Americans had become

On the morrow, we will have risen once more

Old leaders were replaced

Young, brand new players leading to higher ground

Across the United States of America

Many teams played the same game

- HK -

On the morrow, we will once again: live, love, laugh, clasp hands, say, and prove to all of the intellect, worldwide – it's all our responsibility. Glory will become what we will once again prove to all the children; conversations will always beat the hell out of making war. Love! Made and preserved right here in the United States of America. May all of our good hearts live forever.

Harvey Kalmenson

"Rally 'Round The Flag"

Since forever began, I’m here to tell ya' what they reported as being a factual question: What in the name of hell has happened to this generation of young people?

The answer hasn’t really changed our planet's malady:

Young people are born at a very young age and continue to age slower than old people do. Mainly because the young don’t learn much from the older generations about the art form of listening.

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Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, of secular Ashkenazi German Jewish parents. His bloodline, from his grandfather's side stemming from Ukraine still exists today. Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at age 76. He remained in complete control of his mental faculties at his time of death. (Perhaps still listening in to what the doctors had to say.)

Source: Jewish Virtual Library <https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/albert-einstein>

One of Einstein’s most erstwhile and powerful belief edicts was the importance of being a good listener. In the field of education, we’ve learned it particularly follows the course of the better-than-average student, as well as their march towards a lifetime degree of success in business, parenting, and prolonged lifetime friendships.

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When you can run

Laughing at yourself

Recovering

Healing

From

One of life’s setbacks

And you’re still

Thinking tall

Dreaming deep dreams

Remaining smart as hell

Then sharing with all

What nature bequeathed

Our human challenge to focus

By listening

Developing a very personal prowess for success!

It will be yours forever

The older a person becomes, the more they have listened

- HK -

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90 Is The New 85: 'Oldest Old' Population Is Expanding Rapidly

From 720,000 in the year 1980 to more than 1.9 million in 2010, the number of Americans who are 90 years of age or older has nearly tripled... And according to the Census Bureau, "over the next four decades, this population is projected to more than quadruple."

Source: NPR