Consider: An offer to help with strings attached isn't an offer at all!

"Lots of people think they;re charitable if they give away old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing."

Myrtle Reed, author (1874-1911)

From a stress-management class taken while at Home Savings of America (circa 1978)

Footnote:

• HSA (Home Savings), GFS (Glendale Federal Savings), CFS (California
  Federal Savings) - all are now extinct. In 2010, these institutions which were
  billions and billions of dollars 'strong', are now no more. Swallowed. Traded.
  Plundered from the top down, inside out, emptied of any value then disposed
  of upon an indifferent public in a marketplace that only the few survived in.
• It has been more than 10 years since we dealt with them, and the younger
  (current) generation has no idea what giants they were, or how significant is
  their passing.
• Stress? I realize that I am lucky to have experienced, grown up
  in, and to have been a part of that culture. They're gone. I survived. No stress.

Gold miners are like stamp or coin collectors, in that when they find a nugget or two they know they have a valuable specimen. Like philatelic or numismatic collectors, gold miners recognize and value their rare 'special' find. Hunger and human need being what it is, they must sell their gold for immediate profit at today's prices in order to meet today's needs.

Being a successful gold miner requires being lucky enough to find enough gold to more than satisfy today's need. Being successful requires knowing enough to resist the temptation of want over need. To be successful, the gold miner must know where and when and how to invest the excess over need, to invest the amount that more than satisfies today's need.

Consider: It requires some amount of knowledge regarding how to find gold, how to assay a 'find', how to retrieve all of the mineral once discovering its location. However, having all of this knowledge does not attract luck. Luck is where you find it. Some people are lucky, some are not, but without that special knowledge concerning gold, one might walk over a likely spot and entirely miss a lode. If there is any 'bad luck' in such an instance, it is relegated to the missed opportunity to gain the knowledge - not to stepping blindly on the gold without seeing it or failing to suspect its presence.

As you lay eyes on the room you see
the cards lay spread on the table, and
the chips lay flush with the cards; you observe
the player who will lay a bet
if he thinks the lay of the place is on the level;
it isn't: the cops rush in and lay waste to it.

Consider: There is only one way to lay an egg.

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Consider: "The tragedy of modern war is not so much that young men die but that they die fighting each other, instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals." -- Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

Consider: Sometimes, in fact, we are so close we cannot even see it; but, can you feel it? Share a little of it...

Quote: Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. -Robert Orben, magician and author (b. 1927)

Consider: Are the illegals running away from, or running to?