It is nice to awaken in the morning and not discover the ocean at my front door. Japan and their troubles are still bothering me. I feel powerless. I suppose there is not really much I can do, and in doing nothing it will pass, for me, "like it never happened", something read in a newspaper. Just another tragedy to add to the accumulation of human misery.
The headlines scrolling across the top of my computer warn of shortages. The Japanese might starve and we might have a shortage of I-phones. Damn! Pretty inconvenient that. I suspect that I will be okay since I don't really know what an i-phone is. I still have my land-line, the same phone number for almost 40 years, but there will probably be other inconveniences to discover.
I am curious about property laws in Japan. In much of the world a property's debt is connected to the buyer and if it devalues you still own the debt. Not here, we can return the keys to the bank and walk away!
Can you imagine, your house is scattered all over the place, unrecognizable pieces mixed along the beach,
and you still have to pay the mortgage? I believe insurance policies for earthquakes and tsunamis are difficult to get in Japan and have a record of paying twenty cents on the dollar when you do have one.
That is all probably just a little problem to them right now, their food is radioactive. No longer compared to one x-ray, they are talking cat scans now, like 400 x-rays! I wonder if the i-phones will be radio active now?
It is interesting how the world goes on and it must, of course. But pausing is good too, we are given a chance to discover what is really valuable. I wonder, if I had a twenty minute warning, what three items I might take with me? What of all the stuff in my house and my shop would be worth carrying?
An interesting game I played in college goes like this: if you could place three items on a card table to represent you, what would they be?
This is what I do!
The headlines scrolling across the top of my computer warn of shortages. The Japanese might starve and we might have a shortage of I-phones. Damn! Pretty inconvenient that. I suspect that I will be okay since I don't really know what an i-phone is. I still have my land-line, the same phone number for almost 40 years, but there will probably be other inconveniences to discover.
I am curious about property laws in Japan. In much of the world a property's debt is connected to the buyer and if it devalues you still own the debt. Not here, we can return the keys to the bank and walk away!
Can you imagine, your house is scattered all over the place, unrecognizable pieces mixed along the beach,
and you still have to pay the mortgage? I believe insurance policies for earthquakes and tsunamis are difficult to get in Japan and have a record of paying twenty cents on the dollar when you do have one.
That is all probably just a little problem to them right now, their food is radioactive. No longer compared to one x-ray, they are talking cat scans now, like 400 x-rays! I wonder if the i-phones will be radio active now?
It is interesting how the world goes on and it must, of course. But pausing is good too, we are given a chance to discover what is really valuable. I wonder, if I had a twenty minute warning, what three items I might take with me? What of all the stuff in my house and my shop would be worth carrying?
An interesting game I played in college goes like this: if you could place three items on a card table to represent you, what would they be?
This is what I do!
