GaryOsberg.com

Good morning from Collegeville,

“You just need to find your authentic swing” Bagger Vance, a character in the movie “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, released in 2000, directed by Robert Redford. Doing well at the game of golf is akin to doing well at the game of life. I am here doing what I do, loving what I do, to a large degree because of luck. Being in the right place at the right time. I had no idea what I was “going to be when I grew up”. I once signed up for the “Phillips Gas Station Management Program”. They taught us how to properly check the oil and wash the windshield while keeping an eye on the gas pump. One day my sister’s boy friend Barry Larson asked me if I had any skill with “drafting”. He had a side job that he needed help with. I was living with my mother recovering from a back operation and I told a fib, but I got the job. When he came to pick up the finished work, he was not happy. “Don’t you know the difference between an object line and a dimension line?” Clearly I did not. I bought an instruction book and did the work over again. I ended up as an Engineer Aid on the Polaris project at Honeywell and designed a part for the gyro for the missile . I probably still have that instruction book in the basement of the Parsonage. When I left that job to go back to college they gave me a very nice compass set and a briefcase to carry my books.

The A Prairie Home Companion show this week is a live broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. The show will be a celebration of all things banjo. Special guests include five-string masters, Noam Pikelny, Joe Newberry and Bill Evan, singer Suzy Bogguss and country music historian Bill C. Malone plus the Royal Academy of Radio Actors. Garrison will report on the News From Lake Wobegon. Enjoy the show.

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs