–Harry Beckwith
Purple Shoe Laces
2.5″ x 3.5″ Watercolor ATC
Another painting from the archives. I have noticed that when I paint larger, I don’t have time to do as many. *sigh*
I have been battling a cold since Sunday. I even declined an opportunity to go fly last night, so I must be sick. **gasp!** I somehow make it through my work days, but I’m exhausted! Anybody have any good cold remedies? I’m scheduled to fly on Monday and Tuesday, and I’d like to be cured by then.
Harry Beckwith
Harry has addressed or advised 31 Fortune 200 companies in 17 countries, including Target, Wells Fargo, and Microsoft, and over sixty startups.
His four books have earned over $21 million in sales in 24 translations. His first, Selling the Invisible, spent 36 consecutive months on the Business Week best seller list, and appears on numerous “best business books of all time” lists. He also is featured in The Ten Secrets of World’s Best Business Communicators and dozens of other business books.
Harry graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and from University of Oregon School of Law. This led to a law clerkship to a federal judge , followed a brief career as a fish out of water, practicing law.
The fish then found his water in the most logical place: The land of 10,000 lakes, where he began his advertising career in 1982. Just over three years later, he was named creative supervisor of Carmichael-Lynch, four times Advertising Age’s choice as America’s most creative midsized agency.
Harry serves on the Board of Directors for the Stanford University Department of Athletics and teaches second grade part-time. He co-founded one of the world’s premier road races, the Cascade RunOff, and since 1975 has run or walked more than two-and-a-half times around the world
He is the thrilled father of four and currently lives with the world’s only flying cat.
Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn’t think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. He paid his son’s tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry. His first published poem was also one of his most famous, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, and it appeared in Brownie’s Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. 
