BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom

Subject: BS: Thought for the day - April 19, 2003
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 01:13 AM

Make the most of what comes and the least of what goes.
~ Art Thieme ~

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 01:17 AM

Art does know his stuff. Thanks kat.....and thanks to Art who has taught me some other important things as well.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 02:40 AM

If it wasn't for time, we'd have to do everything all at once.
~ Art Thieme ~

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: open mike
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 03:21 AM

yes hooray for the sage advice!
When i first saw the most/least
statement i typed it up and printed
it out to post on the wall by my desk!

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: Night Owl
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 04:35 AM

did the same here open mike.

Thank you Art......and kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: Art Thieme
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 02:29 PM

Hey, kids,

I first theard that line on "making the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes" in a recitation done by CHARLIE CARDINAL, an ex-lumberjack from Chipewa Falls, Wisconsin who had put his songs etc. on record for what was then called the Archive Of Folk Song at the Library Of Congress. I heard him say it as part of a later interview when he was in a Wisconsin nursing home as recorded for Wisconsin Public Radio by the superb folk-DJ Judy Rose. Mr. Cardinal was COMPLETELY all there mentally and it was a great interview. He referred to Chippewa Fells as "CHIPPY TOWN FALLS"----which I am certain it really was back in those lumberjack days.

Sooooo, is this a folk music thread or a B.S. thread now??? ;-)

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: Mark Clark
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 02:56 PM

Art, Does that mean Dick can get the recording for us? And what term did Mr. Cardinal use when referring to himself, lumberjack or shanty boy?

An article by Robert Rodriquez at the Midatlantic Storytellers site concludes:

…Perhaps the best way to sum this all up is in the form of a proverb yours truly first heard from the late great storyteller, Marshall Dodge, an aphorism first uttered by his classic character, Burt, from one of the Burt and I stories: if it wasn't far [sic] time, we'd have to do everything all at once.

Very few ideas are entirly original but Art's wisdom is certainly a treasure and well worth noting again. Thanks, Art.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: Art Thieme
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 11:17 PM

Rodriguez has taken many more than one of the lines I used on stage in olden times. Such is life...

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Thought for the day - 19-4-03 Art's Wisdom
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 11:57 PM

Thanks, ya'll! This has been great!