gratification

So I need your help with something. Recently, I’ve been struggling with the idea of the “Sabbath”. I think this is a spiritual discipline I have ignored for most of my adult life. I have always blamed it on the fact that I work on Sundays, but I know that’s just a lame excuse.

You know, I spend a lot of time on this blog bleeding all of my so-very-important feelings and thought processes through my fingers. When I get too terribly navel-gazy, as I feel I've done with the past couple of entries, I usually feel guilty and consider taking the posts down.

There are some people who are born with handicaps and disadvantages and must struggle to overcome their disadvantages, but for most people they have to do really stupid things to stay poor. It is hard to stay poor in America. Having worked with poor people most of my life, I have observed some of the things that people do to achieve poverty. Here is a list. If you want to be poor, these are some of the things you can do.