Friday, Mar 30, 2007 at 23:31
You know Landy, thank you for that, and it was very kind of you to say that.... But I will let you in on a little secret....
I could spend my success on a fleet of BMWs, and get a few smiles as I drove around showing them off... Or something else stupid.. How about a Ferrari or some other ridiculous useless status symbol? But that is NO WHERE NEAR the high you get from 250 families whose lives you are bringing much joy and happiness too.... THOSE SMILES ARE REALLY GREAT !!!
I am riding a Tidal Wave smiles, and THAT is the meaning of success. What else you going to do? Better wines and scotches, better and better restaurants until you are fat and have high blood pressure and you fancy lifestyle shortens your life/?? Fancy useless marble mansion to show off?
I will tell you my secret, we were well off long before
Bushtracker... And the most memorable Christmas we have ever had was one about 6 years ago, where all my kids went shopping for toys in all the big stores here and 100 kms away in Brisbane... We packaged up 15 pressies, good stuff, and snuck around and piled them high on the front yard at 10 at night on Christmas Eve; on the lawn of a Family that was struggling with 5 Handicapped Foster Children doing it tough.... Then we called their mobile phone with a muffled voice and had them go into the front yard from a couple of blocks away just to be sure they got it all...
Best Christmas we ever had!! Most memorable for ALL my children...!! And NOW?? It will be like Christmas for us EVERYDAY we go out to our Horse Property, to see all the good being done, and smiles everywhere....
Bill, its not that we are so big hearted, it is just the rest of you that are missing out on something this good, this great feeling it gives you...
To put a word to the work: Surfing the tidal wave of smiles....
Ha! More "bent thinking" from the lone Ranger................. Yea I know.....
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