Julia Schaun, Pine Oaks Book Club Co-Chair
Greetings, Pine Oaks readers! Or perhaps I should say, G-read-ings Pine Oaks reeters.
April showers bring more reading! That�s what we�re saying here at the Pine Oaks Book Club. Last month saw a stimulating discussion of the book �Profiles in Daring,� led by the book�s author James Watters! Mr. Watters dropped such pearls of wisdom as, �It�s up to you (me/us) to be daring. If you�re (I�m/we�re) not, who will? Some other jerk, that�s who.
And you know, it�s so true. It is up to you or me or us to be daring, otherwise someone else will be, at least I assume so. Of course, if I�m not daring then you might be, which means I�ve failed to dare, but you�ve succeeded. That never really came up in Mr. Watters� talk, so I�m not sure what he has to say about that. Maybe I�ll e-mail him. He did mention, however, that he�s working on a follow up to �Profiles in Daring,� called �Profiles in Daring 2: Dare to be Daring.� It sounds like another winner, and perhaps we�ll have him back when that one comes out.
Mr. Watters� last suggestion was a good one, though, which was to be more daring in your life, and to tell other people about experiences you�ve had being more daring. So in that spirit, here�s one of my examples:
The other day I was in line for the buffet at H.G. O�Grady�s, and I noticed that the line to my left was moving more quickly than the one I was in � I was in the one closest to the wall with the desserts if you�re facing the entrance, and the line I�m talking about is on the other side of the buffet�counter? table? Whatever you call it, it�s where they put the turkey and macaroni and cheese and vegetarian chili. So anyway, I�m trying to decide whether to get into the quicker line, or wait patiently and get my greens first as I always do. Well, out of the corner of my eye I saw someone coming up who was headed for the quicker line, so I just jumped! into it, and got my food and was back at my table before my husband was. So it really is true what James Watters says: you have to be daring, or else someone else will.
Yours in reading,
Julia Schaun, Pine Oaks Book Club Co-Chair
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