Tuesday, November 13, 2007

SOMETHING GOOD TO KNOW

So here’s a story about the rightness of time and place.
David is shopping at Audreys Books, trolling for good books to read on the beach in Mexico, when he overhears the clerk assisting a customer by phone.
Ronna Fey Jevne,”” the clerk says, and the book is called Finding Hope?””
The clerk searches his computer. Yes, he can find the book, but Audreys no longer carries it. They used to have copies, but they don’t now.
Psssst,”” says David to the clerk. I can help that customer.””
The phone is handed to David, who explains to the customer that the Hope Foundation has copies of Finding Hope. He explains that the Hope Foundation is closed today, but will re-open tomorrow. He gives the customer the number to call.

We don’t know who the customer is, or how the customer happens to be looking for that book. We do know that the customer probably doesn’t know about the Hope Foundation. Finding Hope is our best-selling book. People who know us buy their Jevne books here. What we do know is that there are days when the universe simply cooperates, and that’s good to know.

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