a few questions, some of them cliches, worth jotting down for now:

how do you live a meaningful life?
is kitsch all we ever experience these days?
how can you be a socially conscientious citizen without irony or selfish motives?
do all painful memories become dull as time passes?
is the notion of “balance” in life really legitimate?
why does time fly so quickly?
world relevance without media hype – is it possible?

what if the things that make us successful are the very things that eventually destroy us?

calpine (default?)
coffee
wso settlement
tie-out
kpmg
maturity
spread
OM
carry calcs
belly deli
equity returns
coffee
poop
priced!
recovery rates
financing cost
powerpoint
salad
lev loan quals
investor port
powerpoint
print prod
hershey’s
warf
wal
acrobat
stoge
car
home

note: obviously not written by me (too good!). guess where it’s from!

There must have been moments
even that afternoon
when she tumbled short
of his dreams –
not through her own fault,
but because of the colossal vitality
of his illusion.

He had thrown himself
into the illusion
with a creative passion,
adding to it all the time,
decking it out
with every bright feather
that drifted his way.

No amount of fire or freshness
can challenge
what a man will store up
in his ghostly heart.