material wealth

In the midst of the shambles that is our economy, it is sometimes hard to put things into perspective and see that we as a people have indeed been through bad times before. Wearied from news that is relentlessly grim, cynicism is the most likely response to any sentiment that we might have the power to fix what is wrong.

I???ve learned a lot of things in my lifetime but no lesson
has been more obvious to me  than this
one. Whatever you have been in your
past, whatever you are now are or whatever you will be in the future is due not
just in part but almost totally to what your childhood was like.  Or as we say here in the South???your raisin???. 

I’ve learned a lot of things in my lifetime but no lesson
has been more obvious to me  than this
one. Whatever you have been in your
past, whatever you are now are or whatever you will be in the future is due not
just in part but almost totally to what your childhood was like.  Or as we say here in the South—your raisin’.