Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly 5/10/23
"Maybe It Was One Too Many"
"Maybe the Fed should not have raised interest rates.
What if this last time was just too much damage for the economy?"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
"Strange Prices At Big Lots! This Is Crazy!"
Full screen recommended.
Adventures With Danno, 5/10/23
"Strange Prices At Big Lots! This Is Crazy!"
"In today's vlog we are at Big Lots, and are noticing some strange price increases! We are here to check out skyrocketing prices, and a lot of empty shelves! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Gerald Celente, Trends Journal, 5/9/23
Full screen recommended.
Strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, Trends Journal, 5/9/23
"Drone Strike On Kremlin OK;
Drone Strike On White House - America Goes To War"
"Imagine for a moment if a drone hit the White House, there would be an immediate aerial attack on the suspected perpetrator and the U.S. would be at war. There would be “Shock & Awe 2.0.”
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"I Have Never Seen Things This Bad And It's Getting Worse; Biggest Bubble In History About To Burst"
abe, 5/9/23
"I Have Never Seen Things This Bad And It's Getting Worse;
Biggest Bubble In History About To Burst"
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"Best Buy Will Probably Disappear Soon As Perfect Storm For Bankruptcies Hits Major Retailers"
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"Best Buy Will Probably Disappear Soon As
Perfect Storm For Bankruptcies Hits Major Retailers"
By Epic Economist
"Long gone are the days when Best Buy ruled as the top electronics retailer in the U.S. The retail giant is not only losing ground on the market – in March, it reported a 45% decline in its annual net income from 2022, while domestic revenue fell by $13.5 billion – but after reports of mass store closings and plunging consumer demand, it looks like the company is hanging by a thread. What went wrong? A lot, according to retail experts. The chain’s business model, internal operations, and financial health are crumbling, but tracking down Best Buy's biggest failure requires a much deeper look at the way the company conducts its business.
For the longest time, shoppers have been reporting customer service failures at the retailer’s stores. They have been taking to social media to rant about bad experiences with pushy or unhelpful employees, not to mention the inefficiency of the company’s delivery service.
On top of that, experts at RetailCustomerExperience.com highlight that the electronics retailer lacks one of the most important aspects of its business: innovation. It isn’t offering anything different from what other bigger market players do, failing to differentiate itself in this tough market. Meanwhile, operational costs continue to pile up. Best Buy expanded rapidly in the '90s by purchasing smaller chains and transforming them into its big-box format, a strategy that seemed successful — until it wasn’t. "The problem with the creation of the big stores is that Best Buy is now saddled with the costs of that vast square footage," Chen added. And Best Buy didn’t consider the long-term outlook. "They did not realize how fast disruptive forces would turn their stores into liabilities instead of assets," he continued.
Now, the chain is starting to retreat from physical retail as it tries to weather the storm. After announcing a large number of store closings in April, a few days ago it just revealed plans to shut down another 70 locations this year. Financial analyst James Zeoli revealed that the company's chief executive officer, Corie Barry, said during a March 1 earnings call that hundreds of locations were candidates for closure this year. "Although this occurred pretty abruptly, it's not a surprise," Zeoli said.
The troubles of the electronics store chain remember a situation described in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises.” One character asks another how he went bankrupt. “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly,” he said. Now it feels like Best Buy is doing the same, just as many big box retailers have done in the last decade.
First comes the financial imbalances, poorly managed by executives and further exacerbated by stock market volatility, then the economic scenario dramatically changes and sales growth collapses. At the same time, consumers discover new exciting retailers that provide what the company is not providing. The financial collapse comes later. But if history is any guide, the second part, once it starts, will be quick.
As with many large retailers unable to cope with innovation and new consumer expectations, the company will continue to sputter on fumes, slowing down bit by bit until one day it just stops moving."
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"A Look to the Heavens"
“What makes this spiral galaxy so long? Measuring over 700,000 light years across from top to bottom, NGC 6872, also known as the Condor galaxy, is one of the most elongated barred spiral galaxies known.
The galaxy's protracted shape likely results from its continuing collision with the smaller galaxy IC 4970, visible just above center. Of particular interest is NGC 6872's spiral arm on the upper left, as pictured here, which exhibits an unusually high amount of blue star forming regions. The light we see today left these colliding giants before the days of the dinosaurs, about 300 million years ago. NGC 6872 is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Peacock (Pavo).”
The Poet: Mary Oliver, "What I Have Learned So Far"
"What I Have Learned So Far"
"Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I
not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside,
looking into the shining world? Because, properly
attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion.
Can one be passionate about the just, the
ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit
to no labor in its cause? I don't think so.
All summations have a beginning, all effect has a
story, all kindness begins with the sown seed.
Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of
light is the crossroads of- indolence, or action.
Be ignited, or be gone."
~ Mary Oliver
"What Keeps You Going..."
"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings "
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Sam: "It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
- Samwise Gamgee, "The Lord of the Rings"
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"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?'"
- Barbara Kingsolver
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“For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on.”
- Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram”
"Life Is Hard?"
"Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow,
though it breaks every bone in our bodies."
- Edward Abbey
"When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- Sydney Harris
"If Liberty Means Anything At All..."
"If you want to tell people the truth, make
them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
- Oscar Wilde
"What Happened To The Streets Of Philadelphia? Street View"
Full screen recommended. Vomit bag optional.
Kimgary, 5/9/23
"What Happened To The Streets Of
Philadelphia? Street View"
"Problems with drugs and crime on Kensington Ave, Philadelphia's most dangerous street. In Philadelphia as a whole, violent crime and drug abuse are major issues. The city has a higher rate of violent crime than the national average and other similarly sized metropolitan areas. The drug overdose rate in Philadelphia is also concerning. Between 2013 and 2015, the number of drug overdose deaths in the city increased by 50%, with more than twice as many deaths from overdoses as homicides. Kensington's high crime rate and drug abuse contribute significantly to Philadelphia's problems.
Because of the high number of drugs in the neighborhood, Kensington has the third-highest drug crime rate by neighborhood in Philadelphia, at 3.57. The opioid epidemic has played a significant role in this problem, as it has in much of the rest of the country. Opioid abuse has skyrocketed in the United States over the last two decades, and Philadelphia is no exception. In addition to having a high rate of drug overdose deaths, 80% of Philadelphia's overdose deaths involved opioids, and Kensington is a significant contributor to this figure. This Philadelphia neighborhood is said to have the largest open-air heroin market on the East Coast, with many neighbors migrating to the area for heroin and other opioids. With such a high concentration of drugs in Kensington, many state and local officials have focused on the neighborhood in an attempt to address Philadelphia's problem."
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Bruce Springsteen, "Streets of Philadelphia"
“The Worst Crash in Human History Is Here”
Strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, Trends Journal 5/9/23
“The Worst Crash in Human History Is Here”
"In this video, Gerald Celente discusses the current state of the banking crisis and why now is the time to get on-trend. He shares insights on the current state of democracy, the media, and the economy, including the commercial real estate sector and the gold market. Celente also touches on the possibility of war and provides updates on the situation in Ukraine. If you want an in-depth analysis of socioeconomic and geopolitical trends, as well as trend forecasts, you won't want to miss this video. Tune in to gain a unique perspective on the issues that are affecting our world today."
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"Be All That You Can't Be"
"Be All That You Can't Be"
By Jim Quinn
Our enemies tremble... in hysterical laughter.
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Hat tip to The Burning Platform for this material.
Bill Bonner, "So, Mr. Kennedy Called..."
"So, Mr. Kennedy Called..."
Presidential hopeful RFK, Jr. reaches
out to Bill for some insights
by Bill Bonner
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…”
~ Dwight Eisenhower, 1953
Dublin, Ireland - "Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. called us last week. So began the following line of thought. Dwight Eisenhower spoke those words above at what must have been near the peak of American power and prosperity. And yet, Eisenhower urged restraint. He reminded citizens that every penny spent by the government had to come from somewhere, taking away things people actually wanted – housing… automobiles… food and medicine.
Back then, you couldn’t get something-for-nothing anymore than you can today. But who says so now? Who urges humility…who speaks of trade-offs? Who bothers to look at the price tag? And who would dare to tell the voters that they have to pay it?
There’s always more than a little flimflam in public spending. It’s the hope of getting something-for-nothing that keeps the whole hullabaloo going. But the cost of the US empire is now nearly $1.5 trillion per year. That’s 5 million houses we don’t get to live in. Or 50 million new cars. Or 397 billion happy meals. It’s about $17,000/family/year. Did anyone tell the voters? Are they okay with this? The point of today’s message is that at least one politician seems ready to ask.
A Modest Start: Here at Bonner Private Research, our beat is money, not politics. We’ve never said anything nice about politicians because they, almost without exception, are a nuisance. They pass laws that reduce output. They spend money they don’t have…and divert resources from useful investments to their favorite bamboozles. They impose regulations that benefit a small group of insiders (such as the people who make steel or silicon chips) at the expense of everybody else.
But we wrote about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr because we saw him breaking with the Biden/Clinton/Schumer ‘woke and war’ agenda. He’s proposing to…shut down many of America’s overseas bases and reduce the military/industrial/ spook budget…allow whistleblowers to tell the truth without going to jail…block the feds from creating a new form of central bank digital currency that they could use to control how we spend our money.
Much more would have to be done to rescue the Republic…but that’s a start! And what could we add that might be helpful? We’ve been writing this column for nearly 25 years. Long-term sufferers know ‘where we’re coming from.’ They understand how cutting the link between gold and the dollar, in 1971, changed our monetary system. They know, too, that new, flexible dollars – along with the Fed’s artificially low interest rates – created today’s inflation/debt problem. They know that America’s elites – both Republican and Democrat – have become predatory, incompetent and corrupt. They see how the Fed is trapped between “Inflate or Die;” either it continues to inflate…or America’s $93 trillion debt bubble collapses.
Uncommon Knowledge: Our readers are well aware that investors and speculators have gained about $50 trillion in ‘excess’ wealth from the Fed’s fake interest rates. They recognize that inflation is not an act of nature, but a government policy. And they understand that the elites – who control the government – would prefer inflation rather than see their stocks, bonds and real estate marked down and their power and status greatly reduced.
Our readers are well aware that inflation helps to hold asset prices up (at least in nominal terms) but it destroys the middle class….and how, with no independent middle class, America’s democracy – such as it is – is finished.
But what does RFK, Jr. know? He ‘had it all’ – good looks, brains, money. He was one of the ‘privileged elite.’ Private schools, Harvard... his grandfather was Ambassador to Britain. His uncle was president of the US. Another uncle was a US senator. And his own father was US Attorney General. He went to the London School of Economics – a bastion of ‘Fabianism’…a hesitating, gradualist form of socialism. And he made his career as a lawyer, mostly litigating against large corporations for environmental infractions. But wait. Is that how it works? Is that what gives you happiness, peace, contentment in life? Your connections? Your status? Money?
Uncivilizing America: A friend of ours ‘had it all’ too. He was rich. Good looking. With a beautiful house. A lovely wife…children…he was a partner in a large, successful financial firm…and a commissioner of the SEC. Apparently, ‘all’ was not enough. He shot himself.
And you might think twice before trading lives with RFK,Jr. Both his father and his uncle were shot dead. How come? He must wonder.
Lyndon Johnson had the blood of thousands of Americans and maybe a million Vietnamese on his hands. Nobody shot him. George W. Bush’s hands are stained red too – a million corpses in the Middle East, and yet, he still breathes. And there is Joe Biden…providing billions of dollars, and the latest weapons, to keep the Russo-Ukrainian War going; where’s his Sirhan Sirhan…his Lee Harvey Oswald?
No doubt, RFK,Jr.’s wondering mind took him down some blind alleys to some dead ends. He got arrested for heroin possession. He went into rehab. His ex-wife hung herself. He probed ‘conspiracy theories’ and believes the CIA was involved in JFK’s murder. This is not Mike Pence’s resume!
And he’s still wondering…at least enough to ask us what we thought. So, we sent him a copy of our new book, “Uncivilizing America” (out this week and already Number One in the economics category at Amazon!). We hope it will give him a coherent framework for thinking about economic issues.
The problem is time. Mr. Kennedy must have little ‘free’ time. After all, running for president is not a part-time job. And it took us nearly 25 years to work out what is going on (and even now…there are plenty of air pockets in our pensée). So, if he is willing to give us a little attention, how can we take best advantage of it? Stay tuned as we pack a quarter century of accumulated observations and guesswork into an overnight bag."
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 5/9/23
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 5/9/23
"Putin Calls Out West For A Real War
Against Russia - Tony Shaffer"
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Hindustan Times, 5/9/23
"Putin's Nuke Warning For West On Victory Day;
'International Terror Unleashed'"
"Russian President Vladimir Putin tore into the West for unleasing 'international terrorism' against Moscow in his victory day speech. The Russian President said, 'the world is once again at a decisive turning point.' Putin also sounded a mega victory call and thanked Russian fighters in Ukraine. This as Russia flaunted its nuclear might in a big deterrent for the western powers."
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Hindustan Times, 5/9/23
"Russia Flexes It's Military and Nuclear Might"
"Russia paraded RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile on the Red Square as part of the 'Victory Day' celebrations in Moscow with convoys of armored vehicles and marching troops in tow. Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over the mega celebrations at Red Square in the capital Moscow."
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- Jim Quinn
Gregory Mannarino, "High Probability Of A US Debt Default, Here's Why"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 5/9/23
"High Probability Of A US Debt Default, Here's Why"
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Gregory Mannarino, PM 5/9/23
"Have We Reached A Maximum Debt Saturation Moment?
We Shall Soon See"
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"The Economy Is Bananas"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly 5/9/23
"The Economy Is Bananas"
"The banks are failing all around us. Interest rates are going to continue to climb. The debt ceiling is about to crater. Credit is harder to get. What’s next?"
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"Massive Sales At Meijer This Week! Take Advantage Of This!"
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Adventures With Danno, 5/9/23
"Massive Sales At Meijer This Week!
Take Advantage Of This!"
"In today's vlog, we are at Meijer and are noticing that they have a lot of great sales on groceries this week!! We are stocking up and showing the best deals as we take you shopping with us. It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products and prices continuing to skyrocket!"
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Monday, May 8, 2023
"State Of Emergency, Moscow Burns, Record Wildfires Raging; Nuclear Plant Evacuated"
Full screen recommended.
Canadian Prepper, 5/8/23
"State Of Emergency, Moscow Burns,
Record Wildfires Raging; Nuclear Plant Evacuated"
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"Economy Flatlining; Excessive Spending Is Over"
Jeremiah Babe, 5/8/23
"Economy Flatlining; Excessive Spending Is Over"
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Musical Interlude: Peder B. Helland, "Dance of Life"
Full screen a must for this beautiful video!
Peder B. Helland,
"Dance of Life"
"A Look to the Heavens"
“A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula. This false-color composite image views the nearby stellar nursery using data from the Herschel Space Observatory's panoramic exploration of interstellar clouds along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Herschel's far infrared detectors record the emission from the region's cold dust directly.
The famous pillars are included near the center of the scene. While the central group of hot young stars is not apparent at these infrared wavelengths, the stars' radiation and winds carve the shapes within the interstellar clouds. Scattered white spots are denser knots of gas and dust, clumps of material collapsing to form new stars. The Eagle Nebula is some 6,500 light-years distant, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).”
"I Have Accepted The Fact..."
“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless… I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human beings are inclined to behave in ways that would make animals blush. The ironic, the tragic thing is that we often behave in ignoble fashion from what we consider the highest motives. The animal makes no excuse for killing his prey; the human animal, on the other hand, can invoke God’s blessing when massacring his fellow men. He forgets that God is not on his side but at his side.”
“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.”
- Henry Miller
"Life Comes at You Fast, So You Better Be Ready"
"Life Comes at You Fast, So You Better Be Ready"
by Ryan Holiday
"In 1880, Theodore Roosevelt wrote to his brother, “My happiness is so great that it makes me almost afraid.” In October of that year, life got even better. As he wrote in his diary the night of his wedding to Alice Hathaway Lee, “Our intense happiness is too sacred to be written about.” He would consider it to be one of the best years of his life: he got married, wrote a book, attended law school, and won his first election for public office.
The streak continued. In 1883, he wrote “I can imagine nothing more happy in life than an evening spent in the cozy little sitting room, before a bright fire of soft coal, my books all around me, and playing backgammon with my own dainty mistress.” And that’s how he and Alice spent that cold winter as it crawled into the new year. He wrote in late January that he felt he was fully coming into his own. “I feel now as though I have the reins in my hand.” On February 12th, 1884 his first daughter was born.
Two days later, his wife would be dead of Bright’s disease (now known as kidney failure). His mother had died only hours earlier in the same house, of typhoid fever. Roosevelt marked the day in his diary with a large “X.” Next to it, he wrote, “The light has gone out of my life.”
As they say, life comes at you fast. Has the stock market not been an example of that? In December, 2019 the Dow was at 28,701.66. Things were good enough that people were complaining about the “war on Christmas” and debating the skin color of Santa Claus. In January, the Dow was at 29,348.10 and people were outraged about the recent Oscar nominations. In February, when the Dow reached a staggering 29,568.57, Delta Airlines stock fell nearly 25% in less than a week, as people argued intensely over a message from Delta’s CEO about passengers reclining their seats. Even in early March, there were news stories about Wendy’s entering the “breakfast wars” and a free stock-trading app outage that caused people to miss a big market rally.
And that was just in the news. Think about what you busied yourself with at home during that same period. Maybe you and your wife were looking at plans to remodel your kitchen. Maybe you were finally going to pull the trigger on that Tesla Model S for yourself - the $150,000 one, with the ludicrous speed package. Maybe you were fuming that Amazon took an extra day to deliver a package. Maybe you were frustrated that your kid’s room was a mess.
And now? How quaint and stupid does that all seem? Depending on the day you look, years of market gains can now be taken back. 47 million people are projected to be added to the unemployment rolls in the US. The US death count from what was dismissed as a mere respiratory flu and the left’s latest hoax is now inching towards 1,000,000 and there are millions more confirmed cases worldwide. There have been runs on supplies. Store shelves are empty while prices skyrocket. The global economy has essentially ground to a halt.
Life comes at us fast, don’t it? It can change in an instant. Everything you built, everyone you hold dear, can be taken from you. For absolutely no reason. Just as easily, you can be taken from them. This is why the Stoics say we need to be prepared, constantly, for the twists and turns of Fortune. It’s why Seneca said that nothing happens to the wise man contrary to his expectation, because the wise man has considered every possibility - even the cruel and heartbreaking ones.
And yet even Seneca was blindsided by a health scare in his early twenties that forced him to spend nearly a decade in Egypt to recover. He lost his father less than a year before he lost his first-born son, and twenty days after burying his son he was exiled by the emperor Caligula. He lived through the destruction of one city by a fire and another by an earthquake, before being exiled two more times.
One needs only to read his letters and essays, written on a rock off the coast of Italy, to get a sense that even a philosopher can get knocked on their ass and feel sorry for themselves from time to time.
What do we do? Well, first, knowing that life comes at us fast, we should be always prepared. Seneca wrote that the fighter who has “seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent’s fist… who has been downed in body but not in spirit…” - only they can go into the ring confident of their chances of winning. They know they can take getting bloodied and bruised. They know what the darkness before the proverbial dawn feels like. They have a true and accurate sense for the rhythms of a fight and what winning requires. That sense only comes from getting knocked around. That sense is only possible because of their training.
In his own life, Seneca bloodied and bruised himself through a practice called premeditatio malorum (“the premeditation of evils”). Rehearsing his plans, say to take a trip, he would go over the things that could go wrong or prevent the trip from happening - a storm could spring up, the captain could fall ill, the ship could be attacked by pirates, he could be banished to the island of Corsica the morning of the trip. By doing what he called a premeditatio malorum, Seneca was always prepared for disruption and always working that disruption into his plans. He was fitted for defeat or victory. He stepped into the ring confident he could take any blow. Nothing happened contrary to his expectations.
Second, we should always be careful not to tempt fate. In 2016 General Michael Flynn stood on the stage at the Republican National Convention and led some 20,000 people (and a good many more at home) in an impromptu chant of “Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!” about his enemy Hillary Clinton. When Trump won, he was swept into office in a whirlwind of success and power. Then, just 24 days into his new job, Flynn was fired for lying to the Vice President about conversations he’d had with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States. He would be brought up on charges and convicted of lying to the FBI.
Life comes at us fast… but that doesn’t mean we should be stupid. We also shouldn’t be arrogant.
Third, we have to hang on. Remember, that in the depths of both of Seneca’s darkest moments, he was unexpectedly saved. From exile, he was suddenly recalled to be the emperor’s tutor. In the words of the historian Richard M. Gummere, “Fortune, whom Seneca as a Stoic often ridicules, came to his rescue.” But Churchill, as always, put it better: “Sometimes when Fortune scowls most spitefully, she is preparing her most dazzling gifts.”
Life is like this. It gives us bad breaks - heartbreakingly bad breaks - and it also gives us incredible lucky breaks. Sometimes the ball that should have gone in, bounces out. Sometimes the ball that had no business going in surprises both the athlete and the crowd when it eventually, after several bounces, somehow manages to pass through the net.
When we’re going through a bad break, we should never forget Fortune’s power to redeem us. When we’re walking through the roses, we should never forget how easily the thorns can tear us upon, how quickly we can be humbled. Sometimes life goes your way, sometimes it doesn’t.
This is what Theodore Roosevelt learned, too. Despite what he wrote in his diary that day in 1884, the light did not completely go out of Roosevelt’s life. Sure, it flickered. It looked like the flame might have been cruelly extinguished. But with time and incredible energy and force of will, he came back from those tragedies. He became a great father, a great husband, and a great leader. He came back and the world was better for it. He was better for it.
Life comes at us fast. Today. Tomorrow. When we least expect it. Be ready. Be strong. Don’t let your light be snuffed out.
"If Tomorrow Starts Without Me"
"If Tomorrow Starts Without Me",
read by Tom O'Bedlam
"Dog's Last Day"
So sadly beautiful...
"Regret..."
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
~ Sydney J. Harris
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