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Hi Christa and welcome to the blogosphere! You can't be a big Clark fan (like myself) without being a Christa fan too. I appreciate what you do over there at TCHS; which allows Clark to be of so much value to myself and others. I also love it when you chime-in, your commentary provides great balance, and the best is when you set Clark straight and put him in his place.<br> <br> Christa, I learned not too long ago and only after much struggle and hardship, that our stuff owns us because in my mind: Stuff = Obligations.<br> <br> I think it's terribly sad that lives are spent working for wages to afford the initial cost of unnecessary stuff, only to then spend even more time, money and worry maintaining that stuff unnecessarily. It's not baseball; shopping is our national past time. When I walk my dog and glance into open garages, I witness the symptom mindless consumption. Stuff, clogging the lives of dissatisfied people, just like the plaque that clogs their arteries. They are both slow poison. The garage becomes the final resting place of stuff that often times is still earning interest for the credit card companies. The result is perpetual wage enslavement; few will ever know true freedom. <br> <br> Now I know this sounds dire, because it is. It's only natural, people seek meaning in their lives only they’re not going to find it at the mall, but they will keep trying. So people continue to pursue that elusive goal of happiness when they should realize that what they really seek is freedom. If they would only pursue freedom as their goal, they could then be open to the possibility of happiness and their ultimate success would be much more certain. <br> SanFranKevin<br> FYI: 3 great books of which TCHS needs to be aware, <br> “The Road To 850” (RE: FICO'08)<br> “Gotcha Capitalism” (We are being robbed blind) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17898418<br> “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill)” (This will raise your blood-pressure) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17808622
By SanFriscoKevin
