The Garden of Plenty

What a round with “the crud” is teaching me about time, scarity, and sufficiency.

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(A tale of two political figures - one fictional as well as accidental, one real and very intentional.)
As long as the roots are not severed, all is well.

This week I re-watched the brilliantly constructed satire, “Being There.”  (A 1979 film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted from the 1971 novel written by Jerzy Kosiński.)  Peter Sellers plays a simple-minded [...]

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“What do you do?”  It’s the simplest, most basic question, one we might be asked on a daily basis.  I know exactly what I do, but I’m still trying to figure out how to answer that question in a way that people can understand.
In a nutshell, I help people think and feel differently about money.
I help [...]

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“The quality of our life is the quality of our emotions.”
 
Gas is over $4 a gallon, meanwhile foreclosures are up, workers are being laid off, and business owners are tightening their belts.  The word “recession” is bandied about, sometimes in whispers (as if we’re afraid the economy might hear us), other times in not-so-soft complaints.  [...]

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