Michael-
I post here and read here to learn, so as to better my chances of making good investment decisions.
Reading my posts, you may know that I have a distinct distaste for dishonesty, irresponsibility and disingenuious hype.
Friends and associates know me as solid and loyal, a man of my word.
As a striving mortal, I gladly acknowledge my many errors (whether I find them or they are pointed out TO me - since it is how I learn and grow) and both ask for and offer forgiveness for them as appropriate.
I expect this in myself and respect it in others.
Best regards and luck, Michael-
Steve
For the heck of it, some favorite words (that I use to REMIND myself):
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I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough
to make every minute holy.
I am too tiny in the world, and not tiny enough
just to lie before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action,
and in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone.
I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
and I never want to be blind, or to be too old
to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.
I want to unfold.
I don't want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
And I want my grasp of things
true before you. I want to describe myelf
like a painting that I looked at
closly for a long time,
like a saying that I finally understood,
like the pitcher I use every day,
like the face of my mother,
like a ship
that took me safely
through the wildest storm of all.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Bly)
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I live my life in growing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last,
but that will be my attempt.
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years,
and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm,
or a great song.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Bly)
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JOY
Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere--
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
- Carl Sanburg
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