"Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow." Proverbs 13:11
These are the words written in the fifth or sixth paragraph of the beautifully written article in The New Yorker. I am reading it dripping wet and exhausted from carrying two heavy bags of rejects to any and every thrift shop south of 14th. The temperature has dropped 15 degrees from yesterday aS the sky continues to leak heavily. Apparently New York used clothing is not open for business in the rain because every single storefront is closed with a metal pull down.
I continue to peruse The New Yorker in my 10 minute workout before work..with the soaked through bags beside me.
The picturesque stovetop is not electric, nor gas. It's hypothetical.
Imagine 4 burners.
One is family. Two is friends. Three equals health. And four is work.
In order to be mildly successful, you shut one off.
In order to be wildly successful, you shut off two....
Which do you choose?
Courtesy of a fave, David Sedaris.
Don't know about you.But I want success.
Shoo Wee. Got me thinking. It has to be one.
I turn the page and an infamous cartoon sketches a scene of office cubicles all stacked on top of one another with ball point pens laying idle and computer screens powered down. On top of each wood facade is an identically clad "punch the card" employee lying out supine with arms folded gazing up at the ceiling.
The caption reads:
Look, that one looks like a florescent light.
Stunned. I start thinking about productivity. The amount of energy generated.
The fact New Yorkers already and almost pay ten percent sales tax.
It is abundantly clear. WE CAN NOT CONTINUE TO TAX PRODUCTIVITY. The harder you work, the more you are taxed. No, let's tax consumption. And the group of themfolk who continue to suck down their Extreme Large sugar filled diabetes onset Slurpee and glazed and icing covered fried dough in front of the boob tube can pay for what they get.
FAIR TAX! Whoop. Whoop.
In the words of my local boys...
"You need to get up, get out and get something, don't let the days of your life pass by.
You need to get up, get out and get something, don't spend all you time, trying to get high."
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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” BF
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ReplyDeleteJesus said, "verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters. or father,or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for My sake, and the gospel's, but that he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Surely the path is narrow and straight and some may not walk along side by side the whole way, but the important thing is we finish the race set before us, and in eternity we will all be joined together, and grateful that no one lost their way.