Wall Street Jungle

Hey kids, want to learn stuff your stupid parents refuse to learn? Don't waste time trying to learn things from them about the current financial crisis. This game can be over in about 30 minutes and you'll have lots of new facts to tell your friends.

Wall Street Jungle

Come on kids and play this game. You don't have anything better to do now anyways. They have repossessed your TV, computer, car and home. That's the beauty of this game. You can play it in your tent you are now living in. Just spread it out on the dirt floor and learn lots of stuff you never knew before! Adults you can join in too if your brains are still working.

Games pieces 100 moves Begin at space#1: Begin Financial Meltdown
Donkeys End at space#100: Rebuilt Financial Institutions
Elephants

Take turns picking cards to get to the final space on the board. Here are some unique highlights of this game. You can actually win in two moves if you select these two cards:

Execs stop raiding their companies to get salaries greater than their earnings. Go forward 50 spaces.
Government refuses to allow the same people who created the meltdown to fix it. Go forward 50 spaces.

You can also lose big time if you select the following cards:

We got all the money. Go back 50 steps.
Work at Goldman Sachs. Go back 50 steps. Identical cards.
Work at Lehman Brothers. Go back 50 steps. Identical cards.

Bush administration stops laws regulating trading. Go back 50 steps.
Excessively high salary puts company at risk. Go back 50 steps.

You buy futures in oil and cause gas prices to explode. Go back 50 steps. Identical card colors.
To make a profit, you tell the public we are running out of oil. Go back 50 steps. Identical card colors.

Business refuses innovation, no one wants their products. Go back 50 steps. Yellow card.
Banks refuse to loan out bailout money, business can't get credit to innovate. Go back 50 steps. Yellow card.

Well, by now you've learned you can't ever finish this game. That's okay. Just keep on playing it over and over again. It might just sink it. You too parents.

The Butterfly, the Flower and the Gecko

I'm surrounded by lots of interesting critters where I live. Been looking out my window at a butterfly flitting, flirting with a flower and could feel its excitement as it pulled the nectar from a group of wildflowers. The gecko just crawled across my living room floor; yes, I don't mind sharing my dwelling with these rather sweet lizards. It seemed a little nervous as I approached it and just kept on going at a, I thought, rather leisurely pace. I like that I get invited into their world for my viewing pleasure. Don't really know how they feel about me.



While my cat was alive there was so much wildlife activity outside the house. The squirrels were always yakking at the cat, taunting it and scurrying around on the roof, up the trees, jumping from one area to another. I swear this one squirrel would be hanging out on the tree right where my cat would lay and squawk at it every day. My cat would just seem to tolerate it.



While my cat was alive there were several cardinals that hung out around the house. I can't for the life of me figure out why they were around while my cat was around. One of them, a bright red male, would fly right into a mirror I have posted on an outside wall. He would fly into it everyday. First he would zoom by it, then go flap his wings at 90 miles an hour right in front of it before he would crash right into it, then fly away. He repeated this so many times it became almost ordinary if it wasn't so strange.



I was really disturbed most by the squirrels as they would run on the roof of my bedroom constantly. This went on for a really long time. The strange thing now with my cat having gone to the Great Land where deceased cats go, is the lack of activity around the house. It's been two months since my cat hasn't been hanging outside the house anymore. That's long enough to see that something has definitely changed. No more critter activity.



I didn't notice it at first, of course, missing my cat hanging around. One day recently I looked outside and listened. There were no squirrels. There were no cardinals. It was kind of spooky.

It was so noticeable! I asked my assistant if she noticed it. She said she had seen a lot of squirrels down the road. That got me to thinking that maybe they went looking for another cat to hang out with.



Then I started really thinking. Was all this wildlife just here for my cat? Did he attract it into his world because that's his reality? I do believe that we are co-creators in this world building our own life with visions and actions. I never thought of my cat perhaps doing the same. At least I never saw the physical environment of a cat's life change like that before.



I'm keeping a close eye out for those squirrels. If they come back, there might be a stray cat around. There were three deer in our field yesterday. Wonder what that's all about?

It's Tuesday, I'm happy, I'm 60!

If I had thought I could say that 30 years ago or even 20 years ago, it would have saved me a lot of worry! I am so happy to announce that getting older is terribly enjoyable and I wish all of you who read this as much fun when you get old! Here are the myths that I now can say with my life have been totally busted:

Your brain will go to mush
You won't be able to move
You will lose interest in sex
You will let her hair go natural
You will start wearing 'mature lady' clothes
You will stop exercising
You won't be able to see
You won't be able to hear
You won't be able to drive
Your shoes will be comfortable but ugly
You will stop working
You will stop wanting to explore new ideas
You will not be able to start a new career

Okay, you get the picture. Life doesn't end at 59. It's hard to see into the future when you are young. 60 looks a long way off. 80 looks a long way off for me right now. And I know that many things can happen between now and then. I know that many people don't make it to 60. But the life expectancy is increasing. We have more assistance to prolong life. I'm all for it!

Life is great! Get out and feel it! Jump around a little bit sometimes! Sing your favorite song in the grocery store! Why not?! Who cares?! Give a friendly smile to someone who might need to know that someone cares. Let your love shine out! Be happy! Appreciate what you have! and keep on dreaming the big ones!