Waking's Blog – January 2009 Archive (3)

I've been off work for the last week and a half for holiday vacation and have had my little one during the days and most of the evenings keeping him out of daycare so we can spend some quality time together... truth be told I've become a bit weary...but he's more than worth it!

Actually, I'm more stressed over the worry of the overwhelming financial burden my (soon to be ex) wife will pursue to force on me through our next mediation divorce meeting Friday...



Anyhow, I got a… Continue

A Coat

I MADE my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

Mergers and Acquisitions

By Edward Hirsch (1994)



Beyond junk bonds and oil spills

beyond the collapse of Savings and Loans

beyond liquidations and options on futures,

beyond basket trading and expanding foreign markets, the Dow Jones

industrial average,

the Standard and Poor’s stock index,

mutual funds, commodities,

beyond the rising tide of debits and credits, opinion polls, falling

currencies, and signs

for LA Gear and… Continue