Socrates Cafe Online, each Tue, Fri, Sat, 1st. Sun, 6:30 pm Denver MDT (303)861-1447 Socrates Cafe Dialogue Groups: Watch1 Lead1 Start1. Meeting ID and password emailed to members 30 minutes before each meeting. For free membership write JohnScottWren@gmail.com.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Media Advisory

Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc
1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, Denver, CO 80210
www.SmallBizChamber.org   (303)861-1447 

Contact: John Wren, (303)861-1447
(Media please request cell.)

MEDIA ADVISORY
November 27, 2019

Long-time community activist John Wren announced today a new campaign to strengthen the grassroots. "If we are successful it could have a big impact on the 2020 elections and beyound," said Wren. He promised a media advisory each Thursday to track progress. "For more information please call me at (303)861-1447.

Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Inc is a Colorado not-for-profit corporation. Wren is the founder and serves as the current President.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Happy birthday Allie!


Celebrating Allie Wren's 40th birthday at Dazzell's!


Act I--

Allie arrives at Dazzell's:



Act II-- More music.


Act III-- Here's the food:

Sunday, November 24, 2019

A Love Letter-- In the beginning.

A Love Letter

It was the best.

It was the worst.

It is still the best and the worst. It's always that way. The very best, nothing better, always has some of the worst in it.

It all began when Janet and I took the train to Chicago just before Thanksgiving in 1964.

It was our senior year, our football team had just lost our last game of the season, if we'd won, which we should have, I'd be staying to play in the playoffs for the state championship. 

The entire TJ (Denver Thomas Jefferson High School) yearbook staff was being chaparoned by Mrs. Shapiro (Sandy's, the editor's, mom) and Mr. Art Mason, an English teacher and the yearbook sponsor for the 4th time; he and dozens of students had been documenting the school since the Fall of 1960 when it was written up in Life Magazine, it opened as part of the space race spawned by the Russians launch of Sputnic.

All this comes to mind right now, as it has every year at this time, today is the 55th Sunday before Thanksgiving, because my annual memories of getting to know Janet on the trip to Chicago, the best, also marks the worst, the aniversary of my going to war with 8 of my team mates and their defenders, a fight that went public and eventually involved the Denver school board, who eventually made a decision with my future father-in-law protesting their meeting (captured in the Denver Post) and the superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

For years I'd read through the letters that were sent to me by friends and strangers encouraging me to keep fighting. I eventually kept them in a gold box that got thrown away when Janet and I divorced.

This year, I'm going to write this. For better or worse.



Want to start? Pivot? Stop? Listen to 1) PAYG, 2) YouTube, 3) Facebook. Then call me!

My next post here on JohnWren.com will be a love letter, here's why:

I've been working on what I'm doing now (SBCC, Socrates Cafe, OODA Cafe, Franklin Circles, etc. etc.) since November 15, 1979 when pop died. https://Facebook.com/JohnEWren 

 Next to Pop's death the 3rd biggest event in my life, other than Janet and I marrying in 1967 and the births and lives of our 4 kids, happened the Monday before Thanksgiving in 1964, I'll tell you more in my next post here, I'm about to write a love letter inspired just now as I did these 3 things below I've share with you on Facebook.

Would you help me? If you take what I've posted below seriously and actually do the 3 things that are suggested yourself, I'd be very, very interested in the results you might obtain. PLEASE call me or see me at one of our free SBCC meetings and let me know if you'd rate the below 3-steps on Rotten Tomatoes, if it's a 9 or 10 let me know with your comment here, otherwise call or email your rating and suggestions to me, ok? John Wren  John@SmallBizChamber.org 

Now I'm going to start the love letter...




Thursday, November 21, 2019

New! Group forming that will use this book to get started.

I had several conversations with Dr. Langs before he passed away, and I've read many of his books.

He wanted to make the benefits of psychotherapy available to the average person for true emotional sobriety.

If you make be interested in a study group that would start with a study of this book for 4 or 5 weeks, please let me know and I'll fill you in on the details. Call if you have any questions.

John Wren
(303)861-1447

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Socrates Cafe Tonight in Denver

Socrates Cafe, open discussion, Trinity Church, 18th & Broadway, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. www.Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society 

Monday, November 18, 2019

Let's talk today:

This afternoon (11-18) and each Monday I have "Office Hours" at 1311 York Street, 3rd Floor. It is a social gathering for newcomers to recovery and anyone interested in a spiritual way of living.

This evening (Monday, 11-18) there is a Socrates Cafe in the Denver Tech Center, just west of I25 on Arapahoe Road, for more about it and optional (most don't, walk-ins are welcome) rsvp, see https://Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society 

John Wren

PBS Fronline "AI (Artifical Intellegence) Report"

Let's you and I (yes, you reading this right now) talk about this soon, ok? Each Mondays (today) and Fridays I have Office Hours, see https://Meetup.com/Franklin-Circles and I'm at Socrates Cafe tonight (Monday, 11/18), Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday see https://Meetup.com/Socrates-Cafe-Society 

Sunday, November 17, 2019

On David Hume by Adam Smith.


From James Fieser's (jfieser@utm.edu) Hume Archives:
LETTER FROM ADAM SMITH, LL.D.
TO WILLIAM STRAHAN, ESQ.
Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, Nov. 9. 1776
Dear Sir,
It is with a real, though a very melancholy, pleasure that l sit down to give you some account of the behaviour of our late excellent friend, Mr. Hume, during his last illness.
Though, in his own judgment, his disease was mortal and incurable, yet he allowed himself to be prevailed upon, by the entreaty of his friends, to try what might be the effects of a long journey. A few days before he set out, he wrote that account of his own life, which, together with his other papers, he has left to your care. My account, therefore, shall begin where his ends.
He set out for London towards the end of April, and at Morpeth met with Mr. John Home and myself, who had both come down from London on purpose to see him, expecting to have found him at Edinburgh. Mr. Home returned with him, and

Friday, November 15, 2019

OODA Cafe Startup Show

Under Construction
Small Business 
Chamber of 
Commerce, Inc 
(SBCC)
1881 Buchtel Blvd. #501, Denver, CO 80210
Twitter @IDEACafe www.SmallBizChamber.org 

Contact: John Wren (303)861-1447

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 15, 2018

AT LAST! HELP FOR NEW CAREERS, NEW PROJECTS, CAMPAIGNS, AND NEW BUSINESSES USING JOHN BOYD'S OODA LOOP.
Live progress report each Friday afternoon at the Commons on Champa, join us! John Wren

DENVER-- 11/15/19 John Wren announced today a new effort to help individuals create new Good Work. "It's under construction," said Wren, "please watch for our new, improved Startup Show coming soon, and join us live for a progress report and dialogue each Friday, 2:30 p.m. at the Commons on Champa." For more information see https://Meetup.com/Small-Biz-Chamber. 

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