All Around Me, Blue Sky

LiveJournal always says it will remember me when I log in but it never does.

Job searching is a bitch.

 The dog and I took a bath together today.  I enjoyed the thunderstorms we had here, but he did not; I had to soak in the tub to relieve my aching back;  he scratched on the door while I was in there.  I let him in, and he hopped in the tub.  He hates baths, too, but decided to pick the lesser of two evils I guess.  

We are enjoying what we have while we can.

 Just poking my head into LJ to say hello, happy new year, hope you are all well.

Love, love, love all around.

 

 “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

--Oscar Wilde

Own a piece of history, complete with looped soundtrack of roaring crowds:

 www.obamacoins.tv/flare/next

 Fall down seven times, stand up eight! 

- Japanese proverb

"So when does self-interest turn into greed? The Greek philosopher Epicurus said that wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. It was not a unique insight. Two hundred years earlier, the Buddha had suggested that greed came from incorrectly associating material wealth with happiness. Acquiring stuff, he said, has less impact than we anticipate on our sense of happiness.

The history of human culture shows an ambiguity to wealth. Riches were a gift and blessing in the Proverbs tradition of the Hebrew scriptures, and a reward for hard work; the Jewish prophets, by contrast, were filled with righteous indignation at the rich for growing their wealth by exploiting the poor. Christianity for a thousand years disapproved of demanding interest on a loan, which it called usury until, at the Reformation, Luther decided inequalities were necessary to the functioning of the financial world because differentials create incentives that create wealth.

What has persisted through this is the need for a sense of proportion and balance."

--Paul Vallely of  The Independent