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Traveling Light into the New Year
The door flew open. Exasperated “Carrie” entered, “He won’t let me help him!” She talked about what he needed and could not see. She had to save him from himself. To save myself, I jumped up and grabbed her backpack. “Let my bag go”, she said. I said, “Let his baggage go, it’s not yours to carry.”
What’s in your bag? We all have one. The difference between a bag and baggage is the weight of the load. A bag won’t slow you down. Baggage will. We are all taking a trip down life’s path. We all have potential. Yet, many struggle down the path of potential under the heaviness of emotional or circumstantial baggage tightly packed with self-inflicted Read the rest of this entry »
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Sad news greeted me a few weeks ago through a friend who works for the airline industry. The days of unlimited baggage are coming to a close. From now on we get one checked bag and one carry-on bag per person. If you can’t contain yourself in that amount of space you will have the option to pay for additional bags.
Perhaps you have already been put in your place regarding your packing practices by the fifty pound weight restriction I first encountered preparing for my last flight. While surprised air travel had come to this, I really couldn’t complain too much: I’d once recovered a suitcase at baggage claim wrapped in bright Read the rest of this entry »
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The US environmental policy is being dismantled by a government in denial, while more and more evidence pours in about global warming (small things like hurricane Katina).
Politicians cry about our dependency on foreign oil while our cars are getting bigger and bigger and government doesn’t do anything to really improve gas mileage. Their only suggested solution is going into our reserves in pristine Alaska and using that up too.
It’s sort of like the family who can’t budget… then… blames the banks and the credit card companies for having to spend their retirement account on a Hummer so they can look more macho than they feel.
And then what about the domestic problems? We are worried about the Mexicans coming Read the rest of this entry »
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