Mayfield's Renegades

Renegade Outbursts

• I'm already going broke on a million dollars a year! ... Last year his income had been $980,000 but he had to pay out $21,000 a month for the $1.8 million loan he had taken out to buy the apartment. What was $21,000 a month to to someone making a million a year? That was the way he thought of it at the time- and in fact, it was merely a crushing, grinding burden- that was all! It came to $252,000 a year, none of it deductible, because it was a personal loan, not a mortgage.(The cooperative boards in Good Park Avenue Buildings like his didn't allow you to take a mortgage on your apartment). So, considering the taxes, it required $420,000 in income to pay the $252,000. Of the $560,000 remaining of his income last year, $44,400 was required for the apartment's monthly maintenance fees; $116,000 for the house on Old Drover's Mooring Lane in Southampton...Entertaining at home and in restaurants had come to $37,000... Campbell's birthday party in Southampton had only one carnival ride (plus, of course, the obligatory ponies and magician) and had cost less than $4,000. The Taliaferro School, including the bus service, cost $9,400 for the year. The tab for furniture and clothes had come to $65,000... the servants came to $62,000 a year... that left only $226,200 or $18,850 a month for additional taxes and this and that.... (Sherman McCoy in Bonfire of the Vanities)
  
  

Bullet Points at Midlife

• I don't know what you think, but I believe there's no resting place- here on earth, anyway. There are far too many jolts when we're expecting tranquility.

• It might be love that fuels the heart but dreams rule the soul!

Verse

I am the fount of myself.
I glow with inner harmony.
I feel the flow connecting my soul with the universe, yet remain uncertain about the truths I seek.

But sometimes in a quick, I get a peek,
Every now and then, I get a peek...

I Don't Want to go to Bed I don't feel like lying down,
I'll get on my treadmill and I'll walk downtown.
I don't want to go to bed.
I'd rather stay up all night and dream instead-

Things We Like

www.valueinvaluables.com site to get appraisals on any item you wish

www.craigslist.com site to sell or buy almost anything. Not only can I hire personnel for my business but I also bought a Bowflex on Craigslist

www.shelfari.com site to list books you’ve read or want to read in your own personal shelf. Also good for book groups.

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die (Dr. John Izzo)
Izzo reveals the secrets of a happy life as culled from hundreds of interviews of very contented people (It’s a great read, by the way.):

Be True to Yourself
Leave No Regrets
Become Love
Live in the Moment
Give More Than You Take

What are your thoughts on happiness?

Learnings for Renegades

Do you think some tension is being created?