“Never bet against America”
Warren Buffett
This is both investment advice and general life advice.
The photo is of a cactus flower in Bob’s front yard. It is the season.
Investment Advise
On the Ball
“Old age is when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.”
Author Unknown
The photo is of the famous Crested Saguaro at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.
Words Seldom Seen: Sonder
Sonder
Noun: The feeling one has when realizing that every other individual has a life as full and real as one’s own. It is a synonym for “Grok” a made up word from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
Example: “The festival and the feeling of oneness in a crowd filled her with sonder.”
The photo is of a barrel cactus of some sort in full fruit. I got the word from a Postcrossing card from Denmark the writer attributed it to German and said it was very useful. I think that to feel sonder is a gift and a blessing.
Words Seldom Seen: Dysphoria
Pretending
“Pretending to care saves me from having to understand.”
This could be humor or it could be social commentary. Or both. Sometimes caring makes it worse. Example giving cash to a beggar who is an alcoholic. I saw it in the WSJ in a slightly different form.
The photo is of the desert in bloom and yes those are the Superstition Mountains.
Design Rules
I received this great Sonoran Desert Christmas Postcard from a Postcrosser in Canada. I’m going to try to track it down and use it for my card next year. As Lantern Press says “It’s all about the image.” I’ve used the same card for about four years now and it is getting old fashioned.
My old card.
Pessimists
“Don’t let the pessimists get you down.”
This is post number 27 of the “Wisdom in ten words or less series.” The name evolves but the content stays the same.
Life
“90% of life is just showing up.”
Woody Allen
Reality
Perception becomes reality.
Force
