Wednesday 2nd June 2021

A father said to his daughter “You have graduated with honors, here is a car I bought many years ago. It is pretty old now. But before I give it to you, take it to the used car lot downtown and tell them I want to sell it and see how much they offer you for it.”

The daughter went to the used car lot, returned to her father and said, “They offered me $1,000 because the said it looks pretty worn out.”

The father said, now “Take it to the pawn shop.” The daughter went to the pawn shop, returned to her father and said,”The pawn shop offered only $100 because it is an old car.”

The father asked his daughter to go to a car club now and show them the car. The daughter then took the car to the club, returned and told her father,” Some people in the club offered $100,000 for it because “it’s an iconic car and sought by many collectors.”

Now the father said this to his daughter, “The right place values you the right way,” If you are not valued, do not be angry, it means you are in the wrong place. Those who know your value are those who appreciate you......Never stay in a place where no one sees your value.

The London 2012 Summer Olympics had its closing ceremonies in August 2012. Just one week after the athletes dispersed, a masters student in fine arts began a project at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. Regina Valkenborgh crafted a pinhole camera out of an aluminum beer can, duct tape, and light-sensitive photographic paper. Affixed facing skyward on the side of the university's Bayfordbury Observatory, the camera was forgotten—weathering the elements for eight years and one month. David Campbell—the observatory's Principal Technical officer—finally got around to removing the camera this fall. Inside, he discovered the longest-exposure image ever captured, showing eight years' worth of solar paths across the sky.

In September 1940, the Polish soldier Witold Pilecki used faked identity documents to be arrested and sent to Auschwitz, which he planned to infiltrate and destroy from within. Boldly, Pilecki organized a resistance movement inside Auschwitz, hoping that one day friends from outside would liberate the camp. When no help from outside came, he decided to flee and inform the world of the atrocities inside.

He managed not only to flee but also to bring secret documents which he planned to use as proof, and even then he was not believed, as the stories seemed exaggerated. Pilecki begged the Allies to help liberate Auschwitz. They turned him away.

After the war, Stalin’s secret police arrested Pilecki for treason, tortured him, and finally executed him. He was 47. The Soviets worked hard to hide his story, to erase him from history. It wasn’t until the fall of the Soviet Union that the world learned of Pilecki’s heroism.

Norman Davies, a British historian, wrote: “If there was an Allied hero who deserved to be remembered and celebrated, this was a person with few peers.”

Another time a picture is as good as a thousand words!

While the origination is blatant fear-mongering, humourously, it is true enough, nobody gets out of here alive. The questions are, how soon our body dies, from what cause and how healthy we can keep it until it dies.

My business partner once asked someone from the Auditor Generals office what he did. At first he got the spiel. He thank him and them said, “OK, what do you REALLY do?”

The response fundamentally was, “I produce from the statistics whatever figures are necessary to support the argument being presented by the person or group that asked for the figures.”

Now, if the federal government is doing this, is there anyone who really thinks that the same tactics aren’t being used by private companies and lobby groups?

Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014-2021 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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