Friday, October 16, 2009
Time To Lay Her Up For The Season
It is time to put away the Cat's Pajamas for the season. It was a good season and I'm glad that I got it out on Lake Huron many times this year when I vacationed in Lexington, Michigan this summer for a week. I hope that next year will be even better.
A Favorite Quote
Since I'm in the mood to quote people, here's a good one from a good Republican President:
"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote Of The Day
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 05, 2009
What Is Important?
It seems that the times are altering our definitions of what is important. It seems to me at least that family, friends, health, food and shelter, security, all begin to loom large as very important things. Seems like big ticket material possessions are going to mean less to us, unless they contribute to these other, more important things. Things like "status symbols" and useless electronic gadgets, oversized homes, oversized automobiles, etc., will mean less and less and in fact will detract from these, more important things. I struggled throughout the 90's watching people I knew take dream vacations, purchase dream homes, fancy autos, did all the things I wanted to do but was frankly too "chicken-shit" of a large amount of debt required to do those things. Now it seems that all of that has fallen apart and means almost nothing now, in a difficult economy with shrinking opportunities. Even career aspirations have to be tamed, there simply isn't "room at the top" any more. It is impossible to be too cautious now.
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