Find the Good
by Jim Moore
Title
Find the Good
Artist
Jim Moore
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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When I was working as a writer for then-Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, a friend of Lamar's stopped by the Secretary's suite to visit. He came into my small office, introduced himself as Alex Haley, and asked me what I did every day. I said I was the Secretary's personal correspondence writer; it was my job to reply to students and teachers who wrote Lamar asking for advice or help, or for some message, or just out of appreciation. I was fortunate enough to be the one who wrote back on behalf of the Secretary, and each letter I wrote was unique--Lamar did not want boilerplate letters going out of the office--and I wrote between 30 and 50 letters a day.
Haley asked me to keep on writing; he just stood and watched for a few minutes. Then, just before he left, he looked at one of my letters and said, "Be sure you find the good in each letter they send, and find some way to praise the good in your reply."
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November 8th, 2018
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