Hi Mary,

It is always great to hear form you. Yes wealth sometimes brings a whole lot of other problems with it. I was really having fun comparing what is over the top abundance, and then running with the thoughts that come from them.

I learned alot about abundance just by working through the article, and now I try to look for the other side of the coin especially if I am feeling scarcity instead of abundance because I am not looking at the full picture.

What is important is how we look at the issue from our own lives , and it looks like you are really grounded.

And yes sharing is the icing on the cake.

Nick

Hi Shirley,

What I hope is , that the article will provoke you into thought on the subject, and to play with the concepts, just to see if you can shake loose new viewpoints. And if you do, please share.

Nick

Hi Joe,

So good to hear from you. I have been a little preoccupied elsewhere the last couple of months and missing the sharing here at ALP.

If we start with the miracle of life, and just relish the miracle, and all the joy there is if we would only let each person enjoy that richness in there own way then I agree, end of war, poverty, pollutions and more.

But again, and too my point in the article,  poverty is a viewpoint. I learned this a very long time ago when I went to a small Island in the  Caribbean called St Lucia. I was treated to Island hospitality by a man named Richmond the brother of a guy I worked with in Canada. the first night I was there is fellow drove me all over the island to meet this fellows friends and families. To us in North America we call their homes shacks. I never viewed them that way. The people there took enormous pride in their homes, they were spotlessly clean, each house offered me a drink and something wonderful to eat. They treated me, not as a stranger but as Franklin's friend.

From my view point there lives were so rich in warmth and hospitality and so connected to the simple things. They were all very happy people. In my eyes they were abundant in all the things I wanted.

Yet they also saw the material things we had, and every week at the airport, more of their children flew off to a "better life" in the States. It truly is a two sided coin.

I wanted to have fun with the concept, and to play with the ideas. I am glad you enjoyed it.

And I echo your opening, "I am blessed and Highly Favoured."

Hello Nick,

I am well and feeling grand dear friend, so it isn't me you're hearing on. Good to hear from you . I have been following along from a distance and always enjoy your sense of humour and fun.

Nick

Joe,

Just a little PS to your response.

The analogy of the tree, as some thing huge coming from...yes a seed...and before the seed?... is always a great way to speak about something from nothing.

The concept is so exciting to me I could spit backward.

Nick