Great Recession?

not here it ain't

we went to Century City yesterday and what a mob scene of shoppers was there!

I had to wait 15 minutes to get a parking space!
It was like a zoo with people wall to wall and I expect some of them were probably buying things!

and Friday night we went to the Peacelink event at the Agape Church
STANDING ROOM ONLY!

And in my little Westside Village neighborhood I see lots of construction going on
lots of big remodels are happening

So it is not true what you hear about the economy, at least here it is not true
Things are fine here
People are prosperous
People are doing well
Fixing things up
Doing the good work every day

Living the good life
Not the end of our empire
Only the beginning
The great new global civilization is only just beginning
and it will be wonderful
and it is wonderful
RIGHT NOW!

Why Not?

Always I have been asking why?

Why the pain? Why the trouble?
Why am I manifesting the hurt and sadness?

Like a little child....why Daddy?

Why is the sky blue?
Why is the grass green?
Why is blood red?
Daddy can answer, but every answer will generate a new question
This sort of process is endless

so asking why is really silly
why is the world here
why am I here
why am I doing this or that

Why not?
WHY NOT?
and it all unfolds...the spirit does not ask why things are bad or good
the spirit creates
the spirit sees the void and asks why not and out pops a flower or a super nova
out of the void comes the cosmos
out of the one comes the infinite
and the question is
why not?

and the answer is
everything

Youth Unemployment

OK there are people who are not doing as well as they would like

does the world owe them a living?

Personally I did not have a regular income until I was 29 years old
and I did not feel established until I was 33 years old
and I was not happily married until I was 38 years old
and my first child was born when I was 40 years old

but I often hear about the suffering of the youth today
how they have trouble finding work
how this alienates them from the community

I think they are impatient. I think they want it all now. I think it is silly of them to be so impatient. I think they should be counseled in patience not in insurrection

but I can't really blame them

I resented the rich when I was young
I resented those with property or accomplishments
but I just did not understand what they had done to become accomplished
what they had done to earn their property

so things really just stay the same from generation to generation
lessons get learned
we grow up
finally we get old
always new people
learning old lessons

Federal Spending Cuts?

the last time federal outlays decreased was

1965

wow

46 years since outlays decreased
but I keep hearing about spending cuts?
where are the cuts?

I think there have been no cuts, only increases for 46 years
and they still talk about cuts
what fools we mortals be!

so in 1964 outlays were $118,528,000,000
in 1965 outlays were $118,228,000,000
for a cut of $300,000,000
three hundred million! wow! big cut!

2010 outlays , $3,720,701,000,000
three trillion seven hundred twenty billion

this amount is more than 30 times what was spent in 1965

I would like to see a real cut again. A year when they actually spend less.
Real people have that happen. Sometimes they spend less, sometimes income goes down and they spend less

but government.....??

Temptation

"Focus on standardized tests may be pushing some teachers to cheat"

this raises a good question
what percentage of people will cheat if they stand to gain and think they will not be caught?

or ask this
what crimes would you commit for a million dollars or how about a billion?

or is it a mistake to set up systems that tempt people to cheat?

I would say that the less temptation the better because crooked people are always around

and yet this headline is very sad, teachers cheating
teaching cheating
teaching the students to cheat

I try to be a good example to my community
I make mistakes sometimes, but I try to keep the right goal in mind

not easy living here in this world with these rules and those temptations

trying to wish them all well
all people everywhere
wishing them all well

REALITY

INFINITE

ONE

morning conversation while jogging

"Good morning!"

"Good morning! How's it going?"

"Good! How's it going?

"REALLY GOOD!" with a very nice smile.

really good around here, really good
really

REALITY!

Prosperity Is Now

we lament the lack of prosperity

when all around are the prosperous

richer all the time

that is the truth

we have prosperity now

it is not relative but absolute

she said,

"SUPPLY IS INFINITE"

and she was right!