Editor’s Comment: The Beatles covered such a broad array of styles that my “fandom” is highly selective. This, along with a half dozen others, is epic in my view; one of my top twenty all time songs. Harrison says he wrote it at his mother’s house while contemplating what he’d learned in India, essentially that whatever happens has a purpose we can learn from (or not). I just learned one line that didn’t make the final cut would probably have been my favorite: “the problems you sow are the troubles you’re reaping”. Yeow!
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"Moral reflection isn’t easily accelerated by mechanization, like hamburger cooking. The Internet is a whiz at processing, but it doesn’t make truth, justice, kindness, decency, love or courage easier to define. "
Over the next few months, this blog will feature the very few things I’m sure about. Below is my wire-frame. Each month, I’ll get into a bit of background about how I arrived at such certainty, in each case.
Editor’s comment: Such a great reminder: that’s life’s grandest cures are as simple as life itself.
Editor’s comment: I was driving my 34 year old daughter to the airport to go home to Chicago. She downloaded this song to my I-Tunes and said, “this makes me think of you and me”. I cried.
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed....
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."
Editor’s comment: In a June 25th article titled “China eases credit as US Tariffs Loom”, it was reported that China’s central government will release $77 billion to 17 large banks who are to “use the freed up funds by converting bad loans into equity in companies that default on their debt”. At the time, I was reading this book by Dinny McMahon, who spent ten years as a financial reporter in Beijing. To get attention, the publisher and author get ham handed at times but the soul of this book is solid and fascinating to me. It explains in terms I could understand that China’s centralized government, combined with the communist party’s political will to become the preeminent world power could unravel due to constant tinkering with its financial system. Unlike other authors, McMahon avoids trying to time this calamity but very good support is given to how a storm is brewing.
I am an avid follower of current events and yet learning the following facts surprised me:
