WHAT A Wonderful World!
DON’T GIVE UP JUST BECAUSE TIMES ARE HARD
H ow do you feel about the world we are living in? How much influence do you think the global happenings affect you and our sport of pure- bred dogs? What about change and technology? I thought about this question and how much has changed—and how many things have remained the same—during my lifetime. I am a Baby Boomer who was born while America was in the middle of a “Cold War” with the old Soviet Union. While growing up, I remember having “bomb shel- ter drills” which were supposed to protect me from a possible nuclear attack. Thank- fully, the world has not seen anything like that since the end of World War II. How- ever, it is unfortunate that there seems to always be some type of conflict happening in our world at all times. In 1967, the United States was involved in the VietnamWar and tensions were high here in the United States as well as in other parts of the world. In 1967, two songwriters, Bob Thiele and Gregory David Weiss, teamed up with jazz singer Louis Armstrong to write and record a song that was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. That song is “What a Wonderful World.” It was written to remind us of all the beauty in the world, even during times of unrest. Much is going on in our world today and, maybe, if we all listen to those words we can know that there is much to be grateful for:
BY WALTER SOMMERFELT
I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom, for me and for you And I think to myself What a wonderful world I see Skies of blue, and clouds of white The bright blessed days, dark sacred nights And I think to myself What a wonderful world The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shaking hands sayin’ how do you do They’re really sayin’ I love you I hear babies cry, I watch them grow They’ ll learn much more than I’ ll never know And I think to myself What a wonderful world Yes, I think to myself What a wonderful world
Such a beautiful way to describe our world. It was timely in 1967 and it is still timely today.
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