Random notes
Is New Orleans ever going to recover from Katrina? The photos I’ve seen so far don’t due the amount of damage justice. Prayer to the good people of the south coast among whom my earliest memories were formed. It was on trips to visit family from my house in Pensacola, Fla to Theodore, Alabama just outside Mobile that at five years old, I learned to love baseball, Alabama football, shrimp, jazz, creole cooking and the peace that comes just watching the water flow into the gulf on a warm summer’s day.
America loves to think it is the land of 2nd chances but really, we only give 2nd chances to people we either like or we think we can get something from them.
I just finished reading Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. It reminded me of my Uncle who owns his own business and my father who was always hoping for the big break. While Kiyosaki idea that money management should be taught in school is on target, the rest of the book is vague. The kinda vague that leads to speaking gigs, more books, etc. Also it bugged me that he has little in terms of ethics about profiting from the poor in his story about buying delinquent properties with a small down payment to flip at a profit before he has to make good on the balance. He also talk about how the courts and Sheriffs can deal with ‘problem tenants’ while at the same time railing against taxation. The biggie was that he doesn’t name the ‘Rich’ Dad giving the whole thing a infomercial feel for me.
