Like the somnambulist awakened abruptly by a slip on their marble floor, finding that though wealthy, they are neither wise, nor worth worship, and far from proving heroic they instead have hidden all reasons and emotions behind greed labeled “profit, property, freedom.” The baggage they claim was not their creation. The talisman used not from their power. Lucre, made the old fashioned way, invoke someone else’s phrase and incantation.

Two Widows, almost opposites died

widow one: Brooke Astor, 105, died August 14,2007.

It is always easier to be nice, than not.

widow two:Leona Helmsley, 87, died August 21, 2007.

We don’t pay taxes. Taxes are for poor people.

Maybe paying taxes increases longevity, or maybe nice is healthier. Maybe it isn’t too late to try.