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Comment on The Ashby Swap Meet 11/365 by Adam

Adam — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:49:12 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Moose. It didn’t start out as a microcosm story, but it ended up revealing more about who I was then than I remembered or intended on saying, the way the best writing does.

Comment on The Ashby Swap Meet 11/365 by CW

CW — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:46:13 +0000

Good story. Like it. Nice small way of talking about larger things.

Comment on Timing Heals All Wounds, Part II – 8/365 by Adam

Adam — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:53:03 +0000

Ealasaid, my pleasure. This story just popped right out over two days. I think the second half (or two thirds really) is much better, but I’m very happy with not only the product, but the process as well.

Thanks so much for commenting.

Comment on Timing Heals All Wounds, Part II – 8/365 by Ealasaid

Ealasaid — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:14:21 +0000

This is beautiful — just the right mix of horror and fantasy and sadness. Thank you for writing and sharing it.

Comment on Healthy, Wealthy and Wise by Adam

Adam — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:11:32 +0000

Hey Wendy,

Thanks so much for your reply. I really like your ideas, and thank you for sharing them.

I think you’re right to point out out that wealth is not always material things. But I think I value the non-material things in my life very highly, but for me that doesn’t mean that I don’t also want a robust savings account and a nice house. The focus for me is not to trade the one for the other. I never want my goal to be to amass wealth. I want my goal to be to fully embrace my own potential, and in the process create a lifestyle for myself that I’ve always wanted. One piece of that is opening up to the fear of success and the creation of wealth.

Thank you for supporting me in a nice car. I can’t wait to have it!

In general I don’t feel petty short sighted or selfish, but I think I’m trained to feel that way when I start to take on my feelings around money, success and wealth. I’ve been trained for a long time that those things don’t matter (ironically taught to me by firmly middle class folks who never in their lives considered the poverty of Jesus that they were preaching to be a realistic life goal). Coming to grips with that hypocrisy and owning the joy I feel around having money and the security that it brings is a real challenge for me, and one that I want to continue to explore and engage with.

Thank you again for your thoughts,
A.

Comment on Healthy, Wealthy and Wise by Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:21 +0000

Adam,

What you have said is true of all of us. You are brave for writing them down, and sharing them. Let me offer you these three thoughts:

- A woman that I admire dearly once said (when I was thinking of throwing away a good job to go back to school): “Great people are always doing something that is just outside their reach.” I think she would have told me the same when we were considering a new home.

- I never think of a home and a savings account as an amass of wealth, particularly because I have a child.

- I have seen you in a sports car. You are happy and free and happiness and freedom are doorways to creativity. When Jake wanted a motorcycle for the fun of it, I thought about how hard he works and longed for him to have this escape — embrace it!

Love,
w

PS: A forth thought: Fear is something we all have. I wish you did not also have so much guilt and/or shame about being “petty, short-sighted, and selfish.”

Comment on Healthy, Wealthy and Wise by Adam

Adam — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:39:24 +0000

Hey CWW – Thanks for the note. Yes, learning to embrace it is the process I’m going through. Loving this part of myself is difficult, and it reveals a LOT about the lessons I’ve learned around money, wealth and material gain. I’m staunchly middle class Christian in this regard. I find asking people for money, even in the context of business, very loathsome. And further, asking folks to trust ME with their money is even more challenging. My issues with money clearly reflect my own long-standing self-worth issues. In overcoming one, I will overcome the other.

Comment on Healthy, Wealthy and Wise by CWW

CWW — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:56:21 +0000

couldn’t have put it better myself. This eternal struggle… one that you’re ashamed of, but at some point must embrace

Comment on The Spirit of Reflection by Kall Symons

Kall Symons — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:06:19 +0000

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future. Does this mean that our future can be built on a rejection of the past? Surely such a choice is not necessary. The two are not incompatible. The opposite of the past is not the future but the absence of future; the opposite of the future is not the past but the absence of past. The loss of one is equivalent to the sacrifice of the other.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-lecture.html

Comment on Raise Your Glass! by Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:21:00 +0000

I needed to read this today.

You rule.

*raises glass*