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.
Editor’s comment: This song came back to me as I was writing my blog and book of the month columns. The “girl” the Indigos sing about are the people we all know who are prone to sadness and pessimism. Some call them the drama kings and queens. We all have friends who seem addicted to their sadness whether truly depressed or just by nature. A friend once told me he defines people in two groups: those who see what they have and those who can only see what they don’t have.
Editor’s comment: This month’s favorite is courtesy (again) of my daughter, Caitlin. It gives me (and her) chills.
"Do we really need much more than this? To honor the dawn. To visit a garden. To talk to a friend. To contemplate a cloud. To cherish a meal. To bow our heads before the mystery of the day. Are these not enough?"
- Kent Neburn
