People like to focus on Alex's innate abilities: he is very smart and charming. While being blessed with gifts and talents is wonderful, and it is better to have them then to not have them, it doesn't tell you who someone is. Yesterday, Alex made an interesting choice that somewhat illustrates who he is and can become; he created a book club, and used his charm to recruit four members.
Their inaugural selection is "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" by Roald Dahl. He does not know this, but his grandmother Molly worked as an assistant editor in New York as a young lady, and her office was a hotbed of children's fiction. At the time the works of Maurice Sendak, Dr. Suess and Mr Dahl floated in and out of the office. Those gentlemen would have been smart and creative no matter what they did or did not do, but in using their gifts they become great authors. Alex is smart and charming, but more importantly he is using those abilities; in this case, as a leader.
RAP (4.21.2008)
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