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Mustering up the wherewithal to start a blog was not quite as formidable as I thought.  But, what way best kicks it off?  A salient insight about today’s troubled economic times?  Or maybe some sort of timely quote from the Bible or from someone in history?  Hmmm…..given the way I’m feeling these days and given present circumstances, let’s start off with this gem from Big Bill Shakespeare:

Those hours that with gentle work did frame,

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell

Will play the tyrants to the very same

And that unfair which fairly doth excel;

For never-resting time leads summer on

To hideous winter and confounds him there,

Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o’ersnowed and bareness everywhere.

Then,  were not summer’s distillation left

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft,

Nor it nor no remembrance what it was;

But flowers distilled though they with winter meet,

Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.    Sonnet 5