Still I see (Nothing)

Twilight, and another pall of darkness descends
beneath the revered Oak's bough I await life's threads
a calling, of spine chilling wintry frequence
am I lost? Yes, most definitely a numbing maelstrom
I care not for the grey area of this malignant outcome
for the heart reels again and again in the hours of absence

thirteen minutes past six and still nothing's flown
this junction of a heavily congested emotional zone
no guesses as to why, and no key for hope to imply
memories remain on the bench, now the game's nearly over
ninety minutes have flown by, without extra-time for the younger-
half of me, unto the tournament of life instigating reasons why

working on the basis of memory, is that hope enough?
life and death are twins of our very being which we cannot rebuff
continually looking into our subconsciousness and daily torsion
no positive way to turn when the pull of loss is so intense
falling to four or five degrees with no more warmth left to dispense
it's now dark, calm, heartbeats fade through an unknown curtain

a sequacious passing surprisingly benign as if nothing's happened
where on earth am I? nature's healing talent has deadened
picturesque souvenirs, ethereal tints, a paraph unseen
the human touch raised with motherly tenderness
without which life becomes a skyward finial so aimless
what I now 'see' is a moment of icy stillness unforeseen.

by wensum24
©2008wensum24

Because of the crisis in the world today that is
causing people to worry about stocks, bonds, loans,
credit, inflation and the value of money several of my
close internet friends (and a few of my everyday
friends here) have been talking to me about their own
financial situation. A few are asking for advice.

Contemplating all of this I realized very few
understand any of this at all. So, here, as short as
I can make it, off the top of my head, are some
answers, and, some good advice.

LESSON ONE

For thousands of years as a human culture would
develop and a government to oversee that culture would
get established those in power realized that something
would need to be created to act as a symbol of the
effort placed through labor into the production of
"goods", and, that symbol would also need to represent
the value of those goods produced by that labor.

Money is a created thing. From nothing, a ruler says,
this symbol represents your value. Use this symbol to
declare your value is promoted by the ruler.

The rulers would then cause these symbols to be mass
produced. When the rulers bought things or ordered
people to work for them they would "pay" for these
things with these symbols. Thus these symbols would
filter out into the hands of private persons. Those
citizens would use the symbols themselves. Bartering
for labor or for goods was replaced with symbols of
worth.

Rule #1 - Money is just a symbol, and, what gives it
power is the belief by those using the symbols that
they have a firm value.

Rule #2 - When this belief gets stressed out because
of trouble touching the lives of the people within a
given culture these symbols of worth change in value.

Rule #3 - When a society fails so do these symbols
fail. Eventually every monetary system from history
eventually failed and those money symbols became
worthless.

Rule #4 - Eventually the symbols used today as money
by every varied culture on earth will fail and become
worthless.

The question today that needs to be asked by everyone
is this. How do I protect myself from financial
failure? What are the things I can do to help insure
when symbols of worth are in trouble because of events
within my culture that I also will not get into
trouble?

I will try to simplistically explain the truth
everyone needs to know and also reveal an ancient
hidden secret of how someone can easily secure their
economic future. (hint - DO NOT GAMBLE - INVEST IN
SOMETHING THAT IS NOT JUST A SYMBOL)

Morning dear friends,

I enjoyed the sunlight of yesterday, and the sunbeams coming off kiki's Lisboa blog, as today is truly and utterly...cloudy here.

I've to have a busier day than expected, with a neck scan later this morning, and an in depth look at the 'workings of my spine', so I'm told. This is fine, but I become fearful when doctor's jump from one thing to another like this, as it becomes an avalanche of emotion for little me, the patient.

I keep on having dreams of my childhood in France, with my late Grandfather taking care of me...indeed I now realise in the sobering light of day, that my dream contained all my dearly departed family members, some of whom I still cannot bring myself to admit have 'gone.

Have a lovely day dear friends.

Love,
Ed
xxx

PS: I must give credit to Norwich City's wonderful victory last night, winning 1-0 at Southampton brings to 10 the number of unbeaten games we've had.