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(Updated August 23, 2006)
Click HERE for a somewhat more accurate forecast for our area .....
Interesting information about the Town of Clifton, AZ
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A story that explains why we are doing this:
The American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large Yellowfin tuna.
The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while. The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.
The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, señor."
The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat, with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, "But señor, how long will this all take?"
To which the American replied, "15-20 years."
"But what then, señor?"
The American laughed and said, "That's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."
"Millions, señor? Then what?"
The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."
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Work like you don’t need the money,
love like you’ve never been hurt,
and
dance like nobody’s watching.
Don't postpone joy!
"I make myself rich by making my wants few." -Henry David Thoreau
And while we are chuckling .... Read Off Grid Technology on page 5
Quote from "The New Independent Home"
"A dependent house is a forlorn extension of the global scheme of exploitation and dominion, cut off from its immediate surroundings, irrelevant or damaging to the local ecology, crowded onto convenient tracts, scarcely more than a place for laborers to recover from their exertions in service of the global consumption machine."
Quote from "Freewheeling Homes"
"It has been said that the best way to subvert a system of imposed excess is by living simply."
Click the link for some great ARIZONA QUOTES
More Quotes:
"Use it up, wear it out,
Make it do or do without.
--New England proverb"
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler."
- H.D. Thoreau
"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
-Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-Mohammed
The real measure of wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all of your money.
-Author Unknown
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
-William Henry Channing
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman
"That millions share the same forms of mental pathology does not make those people sane."
- Erich Fromme
"The only two durable assets that no-one can ever take away from you - knowledge and experience."
- Bernard Botes Kruger
"The best gift anyone could give or receive is peace of mind"
- Tess Soto
Click here for photos
(Updated August 23, 2006)
Click HERE for a somewhat more accurate forecast for our area .....
Interesting information about the Town of Clifton, AZ
***************************
A story that explains why we are doing this:
The American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large Yellowfin tuna.
The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while. The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.
The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, señor."
The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds buy a bigger boat, with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, "But señor, how long will this all take?"
To which the American replied, "15-20 years."
"But what then, señor?"
The American laughed and said, "That's the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."
"Millions, señor? Then what?"
The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."
***************************
Work like you don’t need the money,
love like you’ve never been hurt,
and
dance like nobody’s watching.
Don't postpone joy!
"I make myself rich by making my wants few." -Henry David Thoreau
And while we are chuckling .... Read Off Grid Technology on page 5
Quote from "The New Independent Home"
"A dependent house is a forlorn extension of the global scheme of exploitation and dominion, cut off from its immediate surroundings, irrelevant or damaging to the local ecology, crowded onto convenient tracts, scarcely more than a place for laborers to recover from their exertions in service of the global consumption machine."
Quote from "Freewheeling Homes"
"It has been said that the best way to subvert a system of imposed excess is by living simply."
Click the link for some great ARIZONA QUOTES
More Quotes:
"Use it up, wear it out,
Make it do or do without.
--New England proverb"
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler."
- H.D. Thoreau
"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
-Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-Mohammed
The real measure of wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all of your money.
-Author Unknown
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
-William Henry Channing
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman
"That millions share the same forms of mental pathology does not make those people sane."
- Erich Fromme
"The only two durable assets that no-one can ever take away from you - knowledge and experience."
- Bernard Botes Kruger
"The best gift anyone could give or receive is peace of mind"
- Tess Soto