Here today to wish family and friends "Happy Thanksgiving" 2010!
Here today to express my relief I don't have to go to work for the next 4 days.
Here today to enjoy our own home-bred turkey. (No Picture, sorry). Although I regret we have to kill it to eat it! But that's our livestock. We eat meat, yet we become attached to our live-stock, and that is life.
In the future maybe that will change. But for now that's the way it is. At least I know our turkey was treated very well, and had a good life. Plenty to eat. I will miss it's gobbling while I try and start my car in the mornings. Certain sounds entice a turkey to gobble. It's pretty cool.
I'm here to remind you, that despite all that's cool about our existence, there is much that sucks - sorry to remind you of that.
Our recent "Great Recession" has crippled hundreds of thousands of average people, myself included.Our banking system is now more dangerous than ever. Politics is more insane than it's ever been, but there is still hope.
Some may argue success is in one's mind, attainable simply by shear belief in oneself. I'm accepting the new reality, that with unemployment rates of 5% gone, as has been the standard in past generations, those rates will remain high for quite awhile. Both a world market and advancements in technology have fueled the reality.
That means, the employer has the advantage. If you're over 50, it's best to stay put. And for me that means a 150 mile commute, M-F. Burning a lot of gas, driving. Although I could move, my home is my home - and it means a lot to me.
Part Four will bring you back to the beginning ...
It begins with a book which I just added to my media list. A book I had forgotten about, but that was vital to who I am today.
Wiki Link: Fifth Business is a 1970 novel by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies. It is the first installment of the Deptford Trilogy and is a story of the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. It is Davies' best-known novel, and considered his finest.
There are "leaders, followers, and fifth business..."
I am the latter.
Happy Holidays!
BobKat
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