‘Chicken Soup’
gets a taste of
‘Honolulu Lite’A column by Honolulu Star-Bulletin columnist Charles Memminger is included in the latest national release in the "Chicken Soup" series, "Chicken Soup for the Soul of America," which focuses on life after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
Memminger's "Honolulu Lite" column "Tragedy in New York should remind us to live," which ran on Sept. 17, is the only Hawaii entry in the compilation of inspiring stories, columns and articles from across the country.
A panel of 40 readers considered more than 2,000 entries before choosing the roughly 60 articles that make up the book. Memminger's column was brought to the attention of "Chicken Soup" editors by New Yorker Sharon Linnea, "inspiration producer" for the Web site Beliefnet.com, which first reprinted the column.
Memminger's column began, "Nothing like the wholesale slaughter of several thousand innocent people to put your life into perspective," and then went on to try to remember what worries he had before the tragedies, the point being we should not spend our lives worrying about things that are unimportant.
"Chicken Soup for the Soul of America" will be published in mid-February by Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises.
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