Celebrate the Recession!

"Real wealth is perishable: food, health, trees, flowers, herbs, healthy soil, clean water, fresh air, friends and art. Learn to value and appreciate those above all else."

-- Kevin & Donna Phillippe-Johnson

Economic downturns are not only inevitable, but also extremely useful. They are the perfect time to take stock of what is really important in life. Hint: It's not SUV's as big as Texas, jumbo, flat screen, high definition TV's, or overpriced dinners at those places that dribble little rivers of colorful sauce all over your plate.

Kevin & Donna have pretty much nailed what is important -- nature, health, friends and self-expression. Everything beyond that is at best gravy, at worst greedy consumerism that attempts to fill a hole in your soul with store-bought doodads.

Simplicity and serenity go hand in hand. They both produce and support each other. By valuing and appreciating the simple things, the real things, we not only experience joy and abundance, we insure that there are plenty of simple things, thus plenty of joy and abundance, to go around.

So celebrate the fact that our economy is in the crapper! Make your own wine, brew your own beer, and drink a toast to "market correction." It's going to get alot worse, folks, before it gets better, and, with any luck, "better" will not looking anything like we thought it did before.

Value the real wealth, the shared wealth of life. Appreciate the natural, the unadulterated. We are rich beyond our wildest dreams! And it has nothing to with GDP, stock prices or 401K's.