In it they had three short stories about three differant people.
One was about a kid in NOLA called Weeding By Example
Last August, Hartman visited a teenager who mowed the lawn at New Orleans City park and helped grow the community's optimism.
A second was called Running On The Memories
In October, Hartman met a man whose very first car not only wins at antique car shows but also keeps the memory of his first and only love alive to him and to all who come see the show.
The two above are GREAT little stories and if you visit the links you can read a short writeup and watch a videos of each, the Car and the Love Story behind it has two videos { I'll bet you get a tear or two wetting the eyes }, as does the Kid with a mower!
The third story, because of the discussions on Immgrants, in a land made up of mostly decendants of Immigrants, and the Illegal part of that discussion, had me download one of it's video's and post it up.
The Amazing Doctor Q which is where the subject title comes from.
He's known now as "Dr. Q," a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University. But not all that long ago, he was an illegal immigrant from Mexico picking crops in the U.S. Steve Hartman met up with him.
An 'American' Success Story
"My very first job was with these very same hands — the very same hands that do brain surgery now, back then they pulled weeds," Dr. Q says.
The reason that one caught my attention is I'm working with a Mexican National now, who has an interesting story as well, though not a brain surgeon, intelligent and hard working he is. He, like this Doctor, probably had descendants living and traveling in the South West long before Columbus sailed the Oceans Blue or anyone else.
He's a quiet guy, and for a Mexican on the tall side, taller than my 5'7" little frame. He also came across illegally some years back apparently working a number of jobs, including being a 'coyote' for a short time. I don't know his whole story but what we have talked about is interesting. He managed to go to college also, getting a degree in engineering than going to work for a company in California. Somewhere along the line he became a U.S. Citizen. The company opened a branch in Charlotte and he and family were transfered here. Than, like many companies, his closed down to move, guess where, to Mexico. They stayed and he went back to school to study to become an electrician, got the needed papers for that, and I'm not sure but worked as one for awhile. Now he's been working for the small remodeling company I now work for. He's been with this company for over a year handling much more than just the electrical, as I do. Doing a wide veriaty of trades, we rarely use subs for the types of jobs this contractor gets.
I asked him why he hasn't gone back to using his degree, getting a more comfortable, and possibly secure job, his simple response is he just likes doing what he's doing now. And he's good at what he does, real good!
The CBS page closes out with this:
True love that really is best in show; striving to cure brain cancer and be forgiven a trespass; and restoring a city park and a community's spirit.
Good news is about our neighbors, our country and our loved ones. Hopefully hearing it helps us all feel a little better about ourselves, which may be the best news of all.
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