About WindRiver Strategies At three years old her Dad caught typhoid fever and died. This event set in motion a series of life challenges that would make her who we came to know. After his death her Mom brought the family back home to New York as they had followed her Dad to Michigan for work. Her mom, Desiree, eventually found work in a factory and remarried Ed Peterson, who was not a fan of children. Ed convinced Desiree to move to Detroit without her kids which meant Lucille would be living with Ed’s parents who did not even have enough money for school pencils.
At age eleven, Lucille reunited with her Mom with a desire to do something great with her life. She convinced Desiree to let her enroll in a New York City drama school but was too nervous to shine. Plus as Lucille describes it, “I was a tongue-tied teenager spellbound by the school’s star pupil, Bette Davis.”
Lucille was in drama school learning to become an actress when she was told to try something else because acting was not for her. Of course, someone obviously underestimated her determination. Later at age seventeen she suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to walk for nearly two years. It didn’t stop her. She would say about herself later in life after an illustrious comedic career, “I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”
Add them up and she made 72 movies and was the star in one of the longest running, most successful TV series in history, “I Love Lucy”. There is so much more to say about her…Desi Arnaz, her kids, the ups and downs of her career but you already get the point. We are all like Sumatran coffee and to become the best we can be we go through a process. Is the process inspiring or debilitating? What is the story you want and choose to tell?
The Bean Series
You Are A Coffee Bean...Being Brewed to Perfection (Part 1)
Risk, Weeds and Mistakes Make Us Better (Part 2)
We Are Like The Sumatran Coffee Bean (Part 3)
Coffee Training & LINsanity (Part 4)
Coffee Training & Ben Franklin (Part 5)
At age eleven, Lucille reunited with her Mom with a desire to do something great with her life. She convinced Desiree to let her enroll in a New York City drama school but was too nervous to shine. Plus as Lucille describes it, “I was a tongue-tied teenager spellbound by the school’s star pupil, Bette Davis.”
Lucille was in drama school learning to become an actress when she was told to try something else because acting was not for her. Of course, someone obviously underestimated her determination. Later at age seventeen she suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis and was unable to walk for nearly two years. It didn’t stop her. She would say about herself later in life after an illustrious comedic career, “I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”
Add them up and she made 72 movies and was the star in one of the longest running, most successful TV series in history, “I Love Lucy”. There is so much more to say about her…Desi Arnaz, her kids, the ups and downs of her career but you already get the point. We are all like Sumatran coffee and to become the best we can be we go through a process. Is the process inspiring or debilitating? What is the story you want and choose to tell?
The Bean Series
You Are A Coffee Bean...Being Brewed to Perfection (Part 1)
Risk, Weeds and Mistakes Make Us Better (Part 2)
We Are Like The Sumatran Coffee Bean (Part 3)
Coffee Training & LINsanity (Part 4)
Coffee Training & Ben Franklin (Part 5)
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