#2-1 (breadcrumbs)

[posteverything]

"a strong and warm wind from the south: a big fish in a small pond, a stubborn blackberry seed stuck in my teeth."There are times where I like to daydream about an imagined future where - and this could be many decades or centuries after today - where somewhere, anyplace, those who remain at least somewhat literate will sit and drink coffee and

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[caliban18]

Following a life in live journal is sometimes like watching a train racing by and struggling to untangle the lives of the occupants as they flicker behind smudged windows. The train keeps going by over and over and sometimes the occupants are dancing, sometimes weeping and so often context eludes. Sometimes the train has curtains and sometimes I can just make out someone's fuzzy bunny slippers.

You used to get slippers that looked like dinosaur feet and made big canned crashing noises every time you took a step. And if you stepped on your heal, they roared. I want to transplant that sound system into a pair of bunny slippers. And put them on a train. And watch someone dance in them.

I have no idea where your train is headed. Perhaps it is into a future where critics will muse upon your words and invent multisyllabic concoctions that will sterilize your thoughts for scrutiny. Perhaps it leads into a quiet siding near a tree lined meadow with a sturdy cabin and the rain for company. Perhaps it will return you over and over to the concrete puddles populated by uniform boxes that our cities are becoming. Who knows. I just watch trains, I don't conduct them.

But if it is your lot to stand among a community and guide for a while, I wish you well. May you honour your contracts and may the truths required by business never dull the fantasy that is also required by business.

[posteverything]

Thank you, old friend. To me business is really just a means to an end, I guess just like anything else, and just like anything else it should be conducted with the notions of being honorable, and fair, in the back of our minds. At the very least, to just be able to look at myself in the mirror in the morning and to be able to go to sleep at night. And at the end of everything, too, to be able to look upon it all and be able to say "Well...it looked like I did what I thought was right." Which I think is very important in this kind of world. No matter where it actually "gets" you.

[caliban18]

"All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."

- Gandhi

You will become the choices you make. We all end our days as the sum of the actions we have taken based on those choices. Sometimes I find that a demoralizing thought, for I have made some extraordinarily poor choices and acted upon them. But I know it to be true.

Even if this business is just a stepping stone to somewhere else, a business relationship is also a relationship and will impact another's life. Treat those relationships as you would any other.

I'm not sure when I became such a preachy fuddy duddy.