What to do, what to do?
It is beginning to appear that I am far better off not having any money to worry about!
Showing posts with label Perspective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perspective. Show all posts
Friday, September 23, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Treasure
The other day a young man that my son-in-law coached in college committed suicide by hanging. Boy I'll tell you what, when something like this happens it will shake you down to your core. What do you say? Do? A young man just finished college, had so much life ahead of him, and it is just gone.
This is the kind of thing that really makes you reevaluate your own life, and it makes one realize what a shame it is that it takes something like this to reconsider what you truly value in life. How sad it is that we have become so complacent and appreciative of what is really important in our lives.
What if that was my kid?
What do I truly value in my life?
This is the kind of thing that really makes you reevaluate your own life, and it makes one realize what a shame it is that it takes something like this to reconsider what you truly value in life. How sad it is that we have become so complacent and appreciative of what is really important in our lives.
What if that was my kid?
What do I truly value in my life?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Eureka!
On 12-29-09 my brother, his son and grand daughter, and me, did a little prospecting in an area that has proven in the past to have had gold. We were not disappointed. We panned for the first time in our lives and actually discovered two very tiny, almost microscopic, granules of gold. Which means of course that had we desired to dredge, dig and destroy this pristine, priceless area for the chance of finding a thousand dollars of gold, who knows what we could have come away with.
This area was once inhabited by a sizable Native American village, it had also been mined many decades ago--maybe even during the time when the village was occupied. Who knows, the miners may have been responsible for removing the village dwellers. The point here is one of perspective, our journey is about finding true treasure, and my brother and I found it in the beauty and grandeur of the area, not in the possiblity of finding gold at the expense of the environment.
For all you hard core prospectors we apologize, but for my brother and I there are more important things in life than gold. About one week ago we watched a National Geographic television program about gold prospecting and it showed a half a dozen young men in the Amazon completely destroying about a half acre of priceless rain forest habitat for less than a thousand dollars of gold; not to mention the excessive danger to their own health from the chemicals they used.Yes, these guys needed the money, however, that does not diminish that fact that they caused a great deal of harm to themselves and others for a pittance, even for them. All this because human beings have an insatiable appetite for life that always results in a shortened, regretful, unsatisfied life.
Those few individuals that learn to live in harmony with all that is around them are the true successes of our time.
For obvious reasons there will be no pictures of this trip.
Desert, here we come!
This area was once inhabited by a sizable Native American village, it had also been mined many decades ago--maybe even during the time when the village was occupied. Who knows, the miners may have been responsible for removing the village dwellers. The point here is one of perspective, our journey is about finding true treasure, and my brother and I found it in the beauty and grandeur of the area, not in the possiblity of finding gold at the expense of the environment.
For all you hard core prospectors we apologize, but for my brother and I there are more important things in life than gold. About one week ago we watched a National Geographic television program about gold prospecting and it showed a half a dozen young men in the Amazon completely destroying about a half acre of priceless rain forest habitat for less than a thousand dollars of gold; not to mention the excessive danger to their own health from the chemicals they used.Yes, these guys needed the money, however, that does not diminish that fact that they caused a great deal of harm to themselves and others for a pittance, even for them. All this because human beings have an insatiable appetite for life that always results in a shortened, regretful, unsatisfied life.
Those few individuals that learn to live in harmony with all that is around them are the true successes of our time.
For obvious reasons there will be no pictures of this trip.
Desert, here we come!
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