Nightclub comic, Joe E. Lewis, has had more than his share of ups and downs. You may remember his story. In book form it was called "The Joker is Wild". They also made a movie of it. Joe grew up in the rough days of the mobs in Chicago. He started singing and telling his jokes in the whiskey mills around the big city and over a period of some 20+ years worked himself into the big night spots of the strip in Vegas. However, between the beginning and the present, Joe E. Louis took raps, hard ones. He had his throat cut by a couple of mobsters in Chicago, who left him to die in a cheap hotel room. He was caught in the middle time and time again when the underworld warring factions were trying to get control of the club business, through which to distribute their bootleg booze. Joe E. Lewis couldn't afford to make an enemy, even as it was dangerous for him to have a friend. And so it was all uphill. When he moved on and out of Chicago, he still took knock after knock, professionally, in his personal life, and with his health. When you read his story you say, "no guy should go through life like that". Yep, he's a remarkable guy. Do you know what he does every morning when he rolls out of bed? He goes over to the window of the room, looks out and says under his breath, “Well, I made it again". That's right… "I made it again". And then I imagine he is grateful. Joe E. Lewis no doubt has learned what so many of us never learn, that we can live just one day at a time, and if we make it through tomorrow, we should figure ourselves lucky. If you do as I do, and try to meet today's problems while nursing Yesterdays hurts and worrying about tomorrow's outcome, why not try the Joe E. Lewis approach. When you get out of bed tomorrow, remember, it's a clean slate you've been given and be thankful you "made it again”.
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