Free download.
Book file PDF easily for everyone and every device.
You can download and read online The Impossible Dream: Four Historical Romances file PDF Book only if you are registered here.
And also you can download or read online all Book PDF file that related with The Impossible Dream: Four Historical Romances book.
Happy reading The Impossible Dream: Four Historical Romances Bookeveryone.
Download file Free Book PDF The Impossible Dream: Four Historical Romances at Complete PDF Library.
This Book have some digital formats such us :paperbook, ebook, kindle, epub, fb2 and another formats.
Here is The CompletePDF Book Library.
It's free to register here to get Book file PDF The Impossible Dream: Four Historical Romances Pocket Guide.
Free Shipping. Buy The Impossible Dream: Four Historical Romances - eBook at leondumoulin.nl
Table of contents
Balmy air is met with a quiet breeze as palm fronds playfully move about, swaying from side to side. Cathedral bells ring out and echo off the old historic buildings. I hear distant music in the streets, the soundtrack of Cuba. Last night over dinner one of the painters here with me told me she had once lived in New Orleans, which prompted me to tell her this story.
When I was a young man, about 23, I learned of an FM radio license possibly available in a small town outside New Orleans. This was very rare because it was believed that all the radio licenses that could be granted by the FCC were gone. Was it too good to be true? The process to apply for a license required visiting the community and meeting with or so community leaders and citizens to ascertain their needs, so you could prove to the FCC that you were able to meet those needs.
Upon arrival in this small Louisiana town, we found everyone to be very unfriendly. No one would talk to us. People would slam doors in our faces.
But why? Finally, we sat down in the city hall of this tiny town, and it was like a movie set. It was sweltering hot, and the clapboard building had wicker chairs and a slow-spinning ceiling fan. He did not stand to greet us or shake our hands.
I control things around here. I control all the land and the permits where you would need to build your tower.
See a Problem?
And I happen to own the one local radio station here. The reason the FCC wants another station here is so there are other people offering service. If we catch you talking to any of the people in our town, our officers might just pull you over, find a bag of cocaine under your car seat, and put you in jail.
No one comes out of our jail, and the only way out is through the alligators.
ShieldSquare Captcha
Naively, we continued to try and meet with people, but more doors were slammed in our faces. Now we understood why. By chance we landed at the office of a local attorney who had spent his career trying to bring this man and his brother down because they were so crooked. People who get arrested in this town really do end up with the alligators.
This of course did not stop us; we were determined to get that station. But soon we noticed a squad car following us and we got spooked, so we got in our rental car and drove to our motel in New Orleans, about 30 miles away. Once it got to be bedtime, we turned the lights out, but we stayed awake and alert, and finally that squad car left at two in the morning. If his job was to make a point and scare us, it worked. Once he left, we grabbed our bags, got in our rental car, and went to the airport, where we slept safely until our flight the next morning. The following morning I phoned our FCC attorney and told him the story.
It looks like no one will get that license. Maybe they would make an exception and move the city of license and not make us do ascertainments? He told me the FCC had never done anything like that in their history and that I would be wasting my time.
Though I was young, very insecure, and respected this man tremendously, I told him I would write it up and get it notarized, and I asked if he would present it to the FCC and request a special hearing. If I had listened to the advice of my attorney, the course of my life would have changed significantly. Because I had a gut feeling, because I did not allow his advice to sway me, because I believed in my own ability to write a convincing argument, I ended up building a station, putting it on the air with one of the best signals covering New Orleans, and eventually selling it at a nice profit. Though a couple of hundred had tried, I prevailed.
Most people stop at the first no, or the second no, or sometimes the third. She said no many times, and they ended up with a dollar for each one. Remember how everyone said Jeff Bezos could not succeed with Amazon? He is now the richest man in the world. It might be about your art, your dreams, your goals, a better life. Almost everything that is in your head is possible, or will become possible. When I went into the Internet radio space, I was told by every technology person I interviewed that what I wanted to do was not possible — that physics would not support it.
The guy I hired told me it was impossible but he would figure out a way to do it, and he did. Everything starts with your belief systems. Though we always need to listen to others, we also need to keep in mind that our vision is different from theirs. The voices inside your head are put there so you can change the world.
So you can do the impossible. You have been given a purpose, a belief, and though few can see it or understand it, you have special abilities to see what they cannot. The world will change, and what is physically impossible today may not be tomorrow. The great people of our times like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, as well as the greats of the past, were all told what they wanted to do was impossible. Yet they were driven to prove their ideas could happen, and they worked tirelessly to find answers and solutions.
They never took no for an answer. Sometimes they are seen as arrogant or tough, which is probably only from frustration when others tell them no and cannot see the world they envision. Life is richer when you follow the voices in your head and never accept no for an answer. In what areas of your life do you need to plow forward in spite of negative comments or discouragement?
About This Item
Use this week to dream, and to move forward on your dream because you know in your heart your ideas, your vision, CAN be done. Of course I can do this. PS: I was told it would be impossible to take a group of artists to Cuba to paint. I was told both governments would never allow it, yet it happened, two years ago.
Then I was told it could not be repeated. Wish us luck. Internet is spotty, but watch my Facebook page for photos and video this week, or once I get back.
Hey, our system thinks you're a bot.
Dear Eric, I wanted you to know how much I enjoy reading your Sunday coffee feature. Sometimes I wish I were painting with all of you in Cuba, or exploring Africa, but my retirement budget does not allow it. On the other hand choosing my passions over. Scenes in my yard are the type that artists travel miles to see. What a joy! Sue Tyler, Idaho native and artist. My most meaningful chance encounter was with an elderly gentleman in a waiting room of the hospital where I worked.
I never ever thought I would be a painter, but here I am, living the life. Your Sunday Coffee never disappoints.
I was told no the day I was born. No she will never walk. I was born without feet. I still have doubts and get discouraged, get doors slammed in my face. I am an artist. I can paint anything but I specialize in portraiture. My portraits have won a few awards, Best in Show, First Place, etc. I was accepted into two national shows, one juried by Jack Beal in and the other most recent in juried by muralist Kent Twitchell.