Opus Vida – An Individual Life
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Baseball Cards
Here’s another other dirty little secret: When a company sells shares, whether at IPO when first going public or subsequent issues, they take the funds and plow them back into the company. That’s it. Your trading those shares in the public market only benefit the seller or the buyer. The company whose shares being traded don’t benefit at all except for “blue sky” that the company is doing great or poorly. A used book seller gets the profit; the author/publisher do not.That's all it is. That's all it's ever been. It’s just baseball cards – a perception of value of a worthless piece of paper.
Welcome to My Life – 72 Years and Counting
An individual is born, lives a life accumulating things, ideas, experiences, and then dies. Where go the artefacts generated through that life? Family is first on the scene, going through the remains, but family have only so much space so the pickings are small. The individual's life is forgotten except for photos kept and reminiscences among themselves. How many generations of photos are kept? How many stories remain? The experiences and ideas. Who gets my stuff when I'm gone? Who really cares? My guitars, songs, writings, stories, essays, drawings – the stuff of my life – furniture I've made, wood that I've worked, things fabricated.
We chronicle the lives of "important" figures throughout history. Very few of us warrant a gander: the hopes, loves, dreams, ideas of the rest of us. What's your story? What's your song? What have you done? We can be Tom Hanks when he made fire in "Castaway" - "look what I have done!" Lest we forget ourselves, let us say "look what we have done!
– Thom and Willy