In case you've missed it, the latest "MeMe" making it's way around the Rain is actually a NON-MeMe - and I've been tagged by the Thom and Ray Team in Midtown Atlanta.
"Real Estate For The Urban Lifestyle"....means we Live in Midtown, Work in Midtown and KNOW Midtown Atlanta! A dynamic, ever-changing part of Atlanta...and an exciting place to live, work and play!! They are definitely on my Top 10 ActiveRainers list, so I'm hoping the Terps will get a bid for this year's Peach Bowl and give me an excuse to go to Atlanta and meet them. By the way, their NON-MeMe was a tough act to follow!
The great thing about a NON-MeMe is that we don't have to come up with anything original or creative to say about ourselves. AND we don't have to think of a topic for today, because the NON-MeMe is it.
Here are the rules passed on to me by Thom and Ray:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next two to five sentences.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one. Pick the Closest.
6. Tag five people to do the same
*The one book that this can not be is the Bible*
At my office, the closest book might be a zip-code directory, or one on appraising golf courses. However, I'm fortunate to be sitting right next to a bookshelf in my living room, and the nearest book is SWEET REDEMPTION- How Gary Williams and Maryland Beat Death and Despair to Win the NCAA Basketball Championship. Okay, here's the fifth sentence on page 56...
To that end, friends of the coach who belonged to the prestigious Congressional Country Club appealed to the club's board to grant Williams an expedited membership. Though club policy traditionally had a five-to-seven year wait for applicants, Williams was accepted "faster than anybody ever got in," Marvin Perry said.
A random book, a random page, a random sentence... and the three lessons/reminders I took away from this excerpt are probably longer than the two original sentences:
1) It's not what you know but WHO you know
2) Networking creates opportunities you never even dreamed of
3) Your surrogates may overcome objections and obstacles on your behalf that you could never do on your own
Lucky for me the assignment was not to find an inspirational passage because I probably would not have chosen this book, page, or sentence. Yet it turned out to be a winner, don't you agree?
With that in mind, I'm going to pass the ball (couldn't resist the basketball analogy) to these five ActiveRain friends:
Brian Block, who just closed his biggest deal ever.
Donna Yates, in the North Georgia Mountains - Check
out the beautiful photos on her AR profile.
Karen Luke, my partner in the Makeover to Takeover Contest.
Calling Karen... where are you? 
Bob Carney, I miss your ActiveRain posts. Here's
an excuse to return for at least a day
.
David Fox, my AMAZING tech guy.
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good post. we are with you!
Groooaaan...
Bob, it's a compliment. Really! Besides, this is a very very easy one - just pick a book, turn to page 56, count down 5 sentences, copy them into your NON-MeMe. You don't have to draw any conclusions from it - that was my choice. Tag 5 people, and it's DONE!
Thanks, Team DeMuria!
Margaret....Love it! And you made me reflect and go back and add the observations.... It pays to have friends in the right places.
Yikes... IT LIVES. haha I thought for sure we had killed off the MeMe. ;)
Nice job Margaret. I think you definitely turned to a winning passage!
Margaret, funny part about reading your nonMeMe is I'm looking around for a book and the first books I see are the phonebook, CRS membership book, the Top Producer manual... We're missing some serious reading here at the office!
Connie, that's really funny - and it would have happened to me if I'd read Thom and Ray's post at my office.
Jesse - I HOPED the meme's were dead... I did my very best to contribute to their demise by ignoring several meme's over the past few months. Thom and Ray just happened to time it right.
Thom and Ray - Glad you approve.
Hi Margaret,
You too eh.......the lot of us sure have become popular.
Margaret: Actually, thank you for tagging me. This one looks like great fun and I'm reaching over the nearest book right now.
Margaret- amazing how that turned out, a great passage with lessons to learn by!