Now noiseless
In the cold
Lungs sting
And breath visible on the air
We listen with hope
But nothing hear
The secrets now gone
Into darkness and cold nothing
Only To be whispered
And ignored again
Come spring
Fall winds whisper
Mundane secrets
That everybody knows
But no one remembers
And the leaves
Give them voice
So too the crows
Yelling without fear
Till in winter leaves fall
And crumble and crunch
Underfoot and on the ground
As teenaged dreams
Under middle aged boots
…
Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners. Friends are pleasant and easy to come by, but intellectual sparring partners question our assumptions and force us to level up.
The US Navy hated him, the USAF scrubbed his name from the National Air-force museum, the Army shrugged him away but the “Ghetto Colonel” did not give AF about money or applause. He rebuilt our fighting forces despite the FOGOs
Today we need a Fighter Ship Mafia
We need Boyd 2.0
In the social media and the internet age, news of bad things seem worse because it is so in your face now. But that evil has always been there, lurking in the background. Also the beauty. Also the good. This was a recent discussion with one of my kids.
Not convinced that humans are any more/less good-evil, ugly-beautiful today than they have ever been. Culture (geo-dependent) has improved but we are individually just as capable today as we have ever been at being really ugly (and beautiful).
"Taking a holistic view will help us consider adjustments, if any, to the supplementary leverage ratio, countercyclical capital buffer and stress testing," said Michael Barr, @federalreserve.
By @ByKyleCampbell
https://t.co/QIrdNdc5x7
My thesis is that long-term mortgages will be the new thing in real estate. This is but the tip of an iceberg. Will the gov to allow conforming 40 (plus?) year mortgages? Only a matter of time.
"The 40-year IO [was] developed to meet the needs of today's borrowers and open the door to thousands of prospective homeowners," said Jeff Gravelle of @NewrezHQ.
By @NMNBrad https://t.co/sRi1mstuBI
"The 40-year IO [was] developed to meet the needs of today's borrowers and open the door to thousands of prospective homeowners," said Jeff Gravelle of @NewrezHQ.
By @NMNBrad https://t.co/sRi1mstuBI
Food for thought:
For the first time in world history there are more people on the planet over age 65 than under five.
That will have profound implications for the trajectory of human population and thus of human civilization.
Cicero Rufus Perry. A Texas Ranger, in August 1844 he was severely wounded in a fight with the Comanches and left for dead by two companions. With 3 wounds, Perry walked 120 miles, from near Uvalde to San Antonio, unarmed & starting without food or water. Born 1822 and died 1898