OK Solberg: 00:00

Hello on again. Welcome in to the 4:05 coffee break. It's hump day, Wednesday. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea. Where'd the week go?

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Well, it's because we had a holiday on Monday. Let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, $5.19 a bushel. 550 pound steer calf in Billings, $4 and 2 pennies, $4.02 A butcher hog in Iowa will bring you 63¢ a pound. And a fat lamb in Billings that weighs 100lbs will fetch you $1.96 But guys, there's more, much more.

OK Solberg: 00:36

Okay. Today I'm gonna muse. I haven't mused on this program for a while. Ya it's time.

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Now is muse a word you're familiar with? Do you use it in your daily vocabulary? Spelled easy, four letters. It's a four letter word. M u s e.

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From Merriam Webster, muse, to become absorbed in thought, especially to think about something carefully and thoroughly. Thea used to say, hey, don't worry about him, he lives in his head. Yeah, man, if it wasn't for musing, I wouldn't get much done at all. I love to live in my head. Okay, here it comes.

OK Solberg: 01:22

Listen. I hollered before the ouch came. I actually said that the other day while I was in the bathroom shaving. I hit my shin on the throne. Yep.

OK Solberg: 01:34

Right square on the porcelain goddess, and I instantly hollered out, ouch. Then while still within the reading room, I laughed. I laughed because I hollered ouch before the pain hit. I thought that was funny. I knew it would hurt, and it did, but it hadn't hurt yet when I hollered.

OK Solberg: 01:56

So I smiled to no one in particular since I was in there alone and I said, I hollered before the ouch came. It's like a reflex, isn't it? It's happened before. We know it's gonna hurt, so we jump the gun and holler. But the pain hadn't even arrived yet.

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So that got me to thinking. I told you I haven't mused on this program for a while. So I got to thinking. Our minds are faster than the nerves in our body. It's kinda like comparing the speed of light to the speed of sound.

OK Solberg: 02:32

Light travels at a 186,000 miles per second and sound travels at eleven twenty five feet per second. Talk about the hare against the turtle, but this hare has a rocket on its back and the turtle has bunions. Now guys, the thing I really liked doing in my childhood was going fencing with my dad. I remember stringing barb wire through a coulee and my dad was on the far side and me at the other end with a fence stretcher. Now I saw him slam the pickup door.

OK Solberg: 03:08

I saw it. I saw it close, but it was about two seconds before I heard the slam from the pickup door. That is a visual audio science lesson in action. So the next time you stub your toe or hurt your shin, I'm gonna warn you, you holler before the ouch comes. Now you realize I could go on and on, but I have two other things I wanna share.

OK Solberg: 03:34

A week or two back, I shared from one of my favorite books. It's titled How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. After that program aired, my friend put a smile on my face by saying, hey, Orvin, I heard you say touch a button and hear at every level of your life, the iron door shutting out the past, the dead yesterdays. Shut out the yesterdays, which have lighted fools the way to a dusty death. And as I heard you say that, I thought Orvin is kind of a hypocrite.

OK Solberg: 04:11

He talks about the past and lives in the past all the time. Now that was funny, and I find great humor in that statement. Now I could defend myself, but I'm not gonna. You gotta figure that one out for yourself. Now the last thing I wanna muse on today is this.

OK Solberg: 04:31

I heard someone say just last week, the helpers aren't being very helpful. Now if a situation arises that makes you prone to say something like that, I'd ask you to refine it a bit. Like maybe the volunteers aren't being very helpful or the aid worker isn't helpful, or the participants aren't being very helpful. See, if the helpers aren't being very helpful, they really aren't helpers. It reminds me of the finale of Seinfeld.

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And Jackie Childs, remember Jackie? He stands up to defend the crew and he says, have you ever heard of a guilty bystander? No. Because you cannot be a bystander and be guilty. Bystanders are by definition innocent.

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That is the nature of bystanding. It's a beautiful piece. So you can't have a guilty bystander and you definitely cannot have a non helpful helper. This program was brought to you by the speed of my mind often creates cobwebs. Let's hear a bible verse and get ready for the rest of the evening.

OK Solberg: 05:47

From Ecclesiastes Moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil. Ecclesiastes 3:13, some of my toil is putting out a radio program, and I have great fun in it. I hope it puts a smile on your face. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.