Marty Floyd’s Weblog

What difference does it make whether it is 97 degrees or 108 degrees when the normal temperature is 85 degrees? Not much is my thought. Heat is heat no matter whether you think of a cool breeze or an actual swim. It is still hot.

Another question: What is the difference between Chapter 13 bankruptcy and Chapter 7 bankruptcy? Not much if you are at a point where you have to say you can no longer maintain your financial stability. Bankrupt is bankrupt whether you think of a cool breeze or an actual swim. It is still financial collapse.

It is somewhat odd to me that there is almost 10 percent of the American working population not working and Washington is trying to bail people out by offering to give them up to $4500 for the car they have. In return they can get a new car. Can they pay it off? Will they lose their job? Is the government looking 7 to 10 years ahead, 20 years ahead? I think not. 

How will my children and their children come to terms with the decisions that cost them so much that it is very hard to imagine? 

Another topic that is hard to grasp is the idea that the government is looking to provide a “dignified way” for end-of-life choices. Does everyone think this is alright? Did they not so long ago think it terrible that there was a “Dr. K”? So much so that he went to jail for assisting. I don’t even want to bring up faith, family, religion or other human attributes.

I read the other day that scientists have spotted a tightly formed galaxy that is traveling a million miles an hour. None of them thought much about the fact that it was traveling at that speed. After all it was over thirteen billion miles away from Earth. 

Another topic that I thought was in this type of category is coffee. I read that tests have concluded that coffee can actually reverse Alzheimer’s. I remember not so long ago my doctor said “do not drink coffee because it will probably kill you.” Coffee was called the most used “drug” in the world. Now here is yet another example of a heat index if you will.

Time has a way of turning, of changing. Maybe that is why there are so many songs, written material and photographs on the topic.

All you have to do is look at photos of times past to see how quickly change occurs. Whether you look at photos of your youth, your children’s youth or extended family the picture becomes the same. Time is time!  

So the point of this is that most things really are relative. It is the person that makes the difference. Our unique self is different than any other, yet positive attitude makes many the same.