“Be the Best of Whatever You Are”
Inspiration for Epilogue
I was completing my 4th round of revisions for my 2nd Edition of What Color Is Your Brain?® book and wanted to add a new Epilogue.
My Blue Brain always likes to include an inspirational poem at the end my What Color Is Your Brain?® workshops/program workbooks, to encourage the attendees, no matter how large or small their challenges seem to be.
I decided to include a favorite poem in my new Epilogue.
Which Poem?
Recently, I had been chatting with a summer camp friend and we discussed our favorite poems. We were grateful that we had been given a the gift of inspirational poetry, as a young girls, at Mac-Do Lodge Summer Camp for Girls. Minnie A Cohen or Miss Cohen, as she was referred to by the campers, was an educator and the director of our camp. Miss Cohen always read inspiration poems to us during campfire awards ceremonies to encourage our self-confidence, strength, and dreams of success.
In fact, many of of us, who were campers, can still repeat those poems by memory!
Encouraging Others
While writing, I realized that in my program introductions and my About the Author, in the new 2nd Edition of What Color Is Your Brain?® I include the following: “Encouraging adults and children to recognize and respect the best in themselves and others is the essence of her books and professional and personal development programs/workshops.“
The Poem
Below is the poem, Be the Best of Whatever You Are, which was written by Douglas Malloch
(May 5, 1877 – July 2, 1938). Mr. Malloch was an famed American poet, short-story writer, and Associate Editor of American Lumberman, a trade paper in Chicago, Illinois.
Be the Best of Whatever You Are
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley — but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass —
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,
There’s something for all of us here,
There’s big work to do, and there’s lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.
If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can’t be the sun be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or you fail —
Be the best of whatever you are!
Closing Thought
No matter what your challenges may be, remember to be “The Best of Whatever You Are”!
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