Eavesdropping Terrorism
I’m really not an eavesdropper, but I am an observer. Sometimes you cannot help but hear little snippets of conversation.
I was at the park stretching out before a jog. A couple parking spots away from me were three twenty-somethings, two gentlemen and a lady. The young lady was highly tattooed and on crutches. The two young men looked like a cross between 60ish hippies and members of an Indie rock band. They seemed to just be out to enjoy the day.
As I stretched I heard a little snippet of conversation when the wind was coming at me, “Did you hear that she said that Ryan’s second child might not be his?” Continue reading “Eavesdropping Terrorism”
Another snippet of conversation
Again, I was in my bedroom with the window open when I heard several footsteps on the sidewalk below my second story window.
Woman’s voice, “I did not pull her hair. I was trying to stop her and that was all I could reach.”
Footsteps as they proceed down the sidewalk.
Woman’s voice again, “You’re not happy with me?”
Man’s voice muffled as if he had entered a breezeway, “No.”
The Middle Class Is Crumbling
Quote from video accessed by link below:
“Thirty years ago, the CEOs that are in ‘Undercover Boss’ were making 30 times as much as their working people. Now, they’re making 300 times as much! We’re about to become Venezuela, or Brazil, you know where the people at the top are basically behind they’re gates with guards to protect their kids from kidnapping. The middle class is crumbling and that’s the country we’re going to become… if we don’t fundamentally change where we’re going.”
Arianna On ‘Real Time’: The Middle Class Is Crumbling
A comment was made about CEOs not knowing what was going on below their levels in a company. It is not that they do not know, it is that they do not care. So many of those folks have a sense of entitlement to their obscene salaries. Bill Maher is right. We have it backwards. The upper echelons get theirs before the folks that really produce get theirs. I have no problems with those having more responsibilities, skills, etc getting more money for what they do. Heaven knows, I was a boss for 6 years and I hated every day of it. But I am sorry, no one is worth 300 times the what the worker bees are making.
Eulogy for Karol Weinhaus
How do we let a mother go?
How do we say …I’m ready now.
How can we ever have a clue of what that really means?
And, all of a sudden
That moment is upon us, and there is no turning back.
We know what grief is….the things undone….the empty spaces……
Waves and waves of conflicting emotions.
But there is peace too.