But Does She Whinny?
It’s a wonder anyone pays any attention to world affairs these days. It’s too dang disturbing. But maybe we should take heart, since it’s so crazy, it couldn’t be this way without a plan. And if there’s a plan, it certainly wouldn’t be for a crash after fifteen billion years of evolution, now would it? I don’t think so, either.
In fact, I’m banking on that philosophy. A woman I was seeing asked me why I was so confident of a brighter future. I said, with all appropriate humility for the occasion, that I couldn’t imagine on a personal level that who- or whatever was pulling strings would have put me what I’ve been through, especially for the last eighteen years of struggle and learning, if it weren’t for a greater purpose. She didn’t know what to make of that at all.
When I left the cushy world of producing for ABC in New York, where I had a substantial salary and benefits, and very low costs, I moved from the concrete canyons to the redwoods canyons of Mill Valley. Part of the cultural shift was to dabble in new realms. So over the course of ten months, I saw an astrologer, a psychic, and a palmist. None of them knew me before I met them, nor knew anything about me. All three mentioned aspects of my life that few others knew about me, especially in my new arena. And all of them said the same thing, that I would help to change the world through communications.
Maybe that is this.
Anyway, some observations on what’s in the news today...First, the CIA
has gotten taxpayer money from Congress to set up a venture capital firm. In-Q-It -- what a clever name, I think -- was set up to invest in high-tech companies and to form joint ventures with firms involved in promising technology. This, from the folks who missed the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Soviet Union, and the nuclear testing in India and Pakistan. Hey, guys, I’ve got this anvil franchise....
Moving right along, Winston Churchill’s granddaughter doesn’t like the fact that she looks like her famous forebear. She’s pushing 50, but no, I don’t know if she smokes a big cigar. Apparently, she is so unhappy with her appearance, that she is going to have plastic surgery. No kidding. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse...yes, it’s going to be done live on the Internet.
Is this a great planet or what? Ya just gotta think that a sense of humor is gonna stand you in better stead than worrying about where we’re going.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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