Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/17/15
This week’s focus point: I wander down a narrow path abutted by dune grass from the house here in Nantucket to the sea, a solitary man. The beach is quiet in the mornings, the receding tide behaving itself, offering azure that meets cerulean about ten miles out at the horizon. Down the beach I see houses, perhaps 300 yards apart, barbicans and battlements defending the heights from the pounding waves. Gulls float over sandpipers running along the shore snatching up tiny mollusks from the surf. Back on the lawn, robins are yanking worms with a leverage that would thrill Archimedes, and rabbits discern what must be tasty morsels amidst otherwise indistinguishable sod. I breathe in the salty aroma of the sea and feel the sand grudgingly give way as I explore the shore. The breeze riffles my hair, a tender gesture from the elements. I can experience this every morning here, and I never tire of it, never lose my stunned amazement of it all. To me, this is a spiritual existence. To me, this is living.
Monday Morning Perspective: I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
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Jeffrey Summers
I wonder what people like Jefferson would think of today’s political morass.
Alan Weiss
I received a record number of compliments to this Monday Morning Memo, which must have struck a chord. But amidst them all was a single complaint from a reader who told me I had a hell of a nerve publishing this when I should be providing specific help every week to people “in the trenches.” On top of that, he said my writing wasn’t good!
I reminded him that this was a free newsletter, and that I wasn’t writing for him, and he could easily unsubscribe. He seemed to feel as a free reader—he’s never purchased a thing from me—he could be outraged if what I wrote didn’t meet his specific needs at the moment.
When I read these kinds of mindless rants, I appreciate how fortunate I am and how some people labor under self-imposed burdens.
Jeffrey Summers
It’s transactional thinking: I’m tying my shoes, therefore I only need help with tying my shoes. I can’t be bothered to think about what happens after I tie my shoes. That’s worthless since I have yet to tie my shoes.
Well I would read anything a smart guy writes. Even if it’s about tying your shoes.