It is very hard to spend less than you

make and much easier to spend more.

There are tons of books that

teach how to reach happiness,

( a profound state of peace.)

However, we are living in this

world that is full of reality.

Spending less is a very hard

thing to do. Many see it as a

sacrifice.

If you have to sacrifice to

spend less, you will be in a

constant struggle and spend

a lot of time in misery.

If you can make it a goal

to work for, you have a

chance for happiness.

Money cannot buy happiness

but without it?

If someone is homeless, hungry

and penniless and is filled with

happiness, a lucky person they are.

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Learn from observation

or learn from experience.

I created the seven word quote,

after reading Theodore

Roosevelt's Fourteen word

quote below.

"This is no new thing.

Americans learn only

from catastrophes and

not from experience."

"THEODORE ROOSEVELT -

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY

THEODORE ROOSEVELT"

Chapter VII: THE WAR OF

AMERICA THE UNREADY

Published by C. Scribner's Sons, 1899

19 years before the 1918 Spanish Flu

Pandemic, President Roosevelt wrote,

"This is no new thing"

and 120 years later his quote

would have meaning today.

There are times when we are forced to

learn from a catastrophic experience.

When we can learn by experience and

from the catastrophes of those around

us, our life will be filled with stories.

It is those stories that you will read on this

website.

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“The fact is that we are really

talking to ourselves,”

A quote found in Lillian R. Lieber's book titled

"The Education Of T. C. MITS"

Copyright renewed 1972 by Lillian R. Lieber

Published by W. W. Norton & Company New York

Reading Lillian's quote helped me

develop this idea.

When I was younger I talked to myself

a lot, and I could do it silently.

Now that I am 74, I talk out loud.

Not all the time, but enough that

my wife will ask, "What are you

mumbling about now?"

"Nothing in particular, I am in the

first stage of writing."

When I was younger I would do

my writing on plain paper. Today

I use my Chromebook hooked

up to a large monitor.

For me 99% of writing is editing.

I have to guard against perfection

or I will never complete a sentence.

I take words that look like a net

filled with sardines and turn

them into a school of fish

performing an underwater ballet.

My writing ideas come from books

that I read, stories other people

tell me and personal experience.

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