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The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we strive to have it posted within a few hours afterwards.
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I wanna again welcome you to the 04:05 coffee break. Guys, Friday, get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water. Let's see what's happening. You've been watching baseball? I make a promise I won't talk about baseball today. Okay. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring Wheat $5.13 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.67 a pound. A butcher hog in Iowa will bring you 64ยข a pound, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings will fetch you a $1.99 But, guys, there's more much more.
OK Solberg:Wow. Wow. I'll say it again. I found a poem. Well, a story really, but it's short like a poem, and it was written by a poet. And his name was Robert Frost. And, guys, I just stumbled upon it by accident. Yes. I love the written word. I really do. I have to confess. And I love to hear the written word read. Yep. So here's the deal.
OK Solberg:I'm going to share only a bit of this poem slash story, and I'll tell you, in its title, there are the words hired man, and it was written by Robert Frost. That's all you need to pull it up on YouTube, the easiest. Now I'm going to share a bit here, but I hope that entices you to read it or hear it for yourself.
OK Solberg:Alright? Here it goes. Segment one. Listen. Mary sat musing on the lamp flame at the table waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, she ran on tiptoe down the darkened passage to meet him in the doorway with the news and to put him on his guard. Silas is back.
OK Solberg:She pushed him outward with her through the door and shut it after her. Be kind, she said. She took the market things from Warren's hands and set them on the porch, then drew him down to sit beside her on the wooden steps. When was I ever anything but kind to him? But I'll not have the fellow back, he said.
OK Solberg:I told him so last hang, didn't I? If he left then, I said, that ended it. What good is he? Who else will harbor him at his age for the little he can do? End of quote. There I end the first segment.
OK Solberg:Now let me read you another segment from the middle. Warren, she said, he has come home to die. You needn't be afraid he'll leave you this time. Home. Home, he mocked gently. Yes. What else but home? It all depends on what you mean by home. Of course, he's nothing to us any more than was the hound that came a stranger to us out of the woods, worn out upon the trail.
OK Solberg:Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. End of quote. That's all you get. The story by Robert Frost that talks about the hired man is a story like the movie The Shawshank Redemption. I believe that movie is so good that any person who only watches an eight minute segment from anywhere in the movie will desire to see the whole thing and more than once.
OK Solberg:And now it's up to you. I whet your appetite, but I certainly did not give you the full meal. My challenge to you is this. Go to the library. Go to the Internet or go to YouTube and read or better yet hear this story read. It's a gem. It's a jewel. It's a keeper. The only thing wrong with it is that I didn't find it before.
OK Solberg:Let me close with a Bible verse. The writer of Ecclesiastes says, of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12:12b
OK Solberg:Oh, yes. Of making many books, there is no end, but don't fail to read this book, the book, I, Robert Cross, and his story of the hired man. Or listen on YouTube. Takes less than ten minutes, guys. You got ten minutes, don't you?
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, Mustangs are planned tonight. Don't be bitter.