June 7th Sunday Morning Review

Missed the opening credits because I hit the snooze button. Thankfully my mother called me at 9:06 to tell me it was going to be a good show and I should get up. I rise and turn the T.V. on to see them interviewing the CEO of Tim Horton's! Ya! I love Tim Horton's I was just saying how I missed their convenient food and deliciously cheap mochas. Tim Horton was apparently a hockey player who started a doughnut/sandwich/coffee shop. The Morning Show (TMS) described how crazy popular Tim Horton's is in Canada. Its a defining landmark in which it seems you could find one in every small town of all ten provinces and three territories. I found the difference between Tim Horton's representative and Dunkin' Donuts to be amusing. Of course the Canadian is just happy-go-lucky, non-assuming, and humble about his success. The DD guy comes off like a used car salesman talking about how they are going to double the 6,000 store locations in ten years.

Next TMS highlighted Norman Lear and all his dedicated work over the years to his job and various causes. This guy has done amazing things from having influential hit television shows (All in the Family) to supporting music education in the third world! I especially like his campaigns encouraging civic engagement like People for the American Way and Declare Yourself. He even owns one of the original copy's of the Constitution of the United States, 1 of 23 in existence for 1.8 million dollars! He's all about urging people to get involved regardless of their political affiliations because that's what makes democracy work.

One final segment to mention here regarded this really smart, ahead-of-his-time scientist named Buckminster Fuller. He strove to build cost and energy efficient vehicles and homes that could with stand anything nature threw at them. He was most well known for his geodesic dome Believing scientific breakthroughs could be discovered through a focus on natural sciences Fuller created innovative solutions to problems of expensive and low quality housing.

The nature scene showed the beautiful waterfalls of a natural area in New Mexico.

Photo courtesy of SamuraiCatJB