b"table of contentsApril 2022 from the Publisher5Ask the Vet: Holistic Horse CareGO LIVE YOUR LIFEJust a few weeks ago, I was talking with the great What Does It Mean? country music artist Wade Hayes backstage before he performed. Wade Hayes has hit songs like Old 9Lee Anderson: Did You Know, Enough To Know Better and On A GoodNight to mention just a 9 In the Old West. couple. He has survived cancer TWICE now!10The Arizona Duuude: Prospecting and His doctor told him he had stage 4 colon cancer Gold Panning With Woody Wampler and it had spreadthroughout his body and 12John Samsill: From the Back of the Box10 organs. However March 10, 2022, he was on stage performing. The most polite, nicest guy, and an awesome man to meet and talk to; he just made 15Bob Boze Bell: True West Moments an impression on me. He has a song youneed to listen to because it should be OUR 16Randy Miller: Your Constitutional Rights anthem. In the song it goes Take it from someone who knows, life aint fair sometimes, man, it aint even close. Youll take a shot right on the chin. You 18Alan Rockman: General William S. lay there wonderin if youll ever get back up again. GO LIVE YOUR LIFE,McCaskeyParticipant and Witness GO CHASE YOUR DREAMS, WE GOT NO WAY OF KNOWING WHATTOMORROW BRINGS. SWING FOR THE FENCE, TAKE THATto History, Part 1 CHANCE, DONT WAKE UP ONE DAY TO SEE ITS PASSED YOU BY.GO LIVE YOUR LIFE.18 20 News from Copper State Peruvian If you wake up in the morning, look around your home, look atPaso Club your family, watch the sun come up, and the birds fly by, your world ispretty good. If you go to work or if you are retired you go about your day 23Old West Legends: The Wham Payroll Robbery with purpose. Still a pretty good world. Your day is full of things to do.24AZ Road Trip: Monument Valley 12 Yeah, life is good. Then something throws you a curveball, and howdo you react? Is that curveball a major WOW, and you step awayfrom the plate and fall backward, or is it an I should have known that26Crossword / Sudoku / Cowboy Comic would happen? Was it a serious health diagnosis, or was it you spilledyour drink at the restaurant? If you watch people, the reaction can be28Arizona Real Country Equine Supply Source the same for either. Little things sometimes make people react the same as big things. What rocks your world, and how do you handle it? Should you 31 Running the Race: What Is Mentally Tough Anyway? handle lifes curveballs differently? Tempers and patience these days for many people seem like they are on the edge of a nuclear war. Most people 32A Cowboy Rests in Heaven: are not like another country song, FREE AND EASY DOWN THE ROAD I Thomas Berry Chambers III GO but are more attuned to HELLBENT AND HEAVEN BOUND.A story was related to me the other day about a lady showing up at a33 4-H: 4-H Holiday BoutiqueOpportunity to Sell, store 15 minutes before they opened as posted on the door. So she waited in her truck patiently Buy and Give outside. An employee shows up, knocks35 96.3 Real Country Concert Page 24 on the door, and someone lets them in then locks the door. A few minutes later, another employee shows up and knocks on the door,39Glendale Equestrian Ride Report and someone lets them in and then locks 40 96.3 Country Cookin: Dolly Parton the door. All good so far, just waiting for the store to open and the door to unlock. She looks at her watch, and it's two minutes until the posted 45Justin Legler: Is That Mercaptan, store opening when another employee shows up and knocks on the door. Someone inside lets them in and this time does NOT lock the door but Its Around The Corner, And A leaves it unlocked. She thinks this is a sign to go in, even though it is twominutes early. So she gets out of her truck and enters the store. How was she True Patriot greeted.WERE NOT OPEN YET, WE DONT OPEN TILL 8 AM. The lady was nice and asked if they wanted her to go back and sit in her truck 46Jim & Bobbi Jeen Olsons Collectors until they open. How tough would it of been for the employee to instead say, Good morning, our computers are still getting online, take a look around Corner: Reselling Art and we will help you the minute when we are up and going. Sometimes it is just the small things that can change another person's day.49A View of the Zoo: Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium and Safari Parks 33 A couple of weeks ago, I stood out in front of the rodeo in Scottsdale and welcomed every person that 39 Easter Egg Hunt came thru the gate for three sold-out performances. Why? Because I saw people change their facial expressions when I said, Welcome, glad you made it 50DIY: Unique Decor to Rodeo Scottsdale. Hopefully, that started a great 56 Taking Care of Business: experience at the rodeo for them. So what should you take away from this? Wake up, Special Advertiser Section put on a happy face, and try to make others happy around you. Your attitude is probably the only thing you have control over. The rest is up to God, and 59Classified Ads GO LIVE YOUR LIFE.62 Advertiser Index64April 2022 Calendar65MentorshipMike Barna, Publisher 65 40 ArizonaRealCountryMagazine@gmail.com4 April 2022"