tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717928631278255285.post8587317194030091723..comments2023-10-05T08:38:30.279-07:00Comments on Katz Komments: R.I.P. FriendJeff Katz Sezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07179019888740282862noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717928631278255285.post-90449217914949713572009-06-20T13:42:41.680-07:002009-06-20T13:42:41.680-07:00I read Thoreau's Walden 30 years ago...then I ...I read Thoreau's Walden 30 years ago...then I read it again 7 years ago. The first time I was in pursuit of the brass ring...the second reading occurred when I was in pursuit of what the brass ring was.<br /><br />The first time through I missed the critical passage that I caught 23 years later - in the SAME book.<br /><br />"Measure wealth not by what you have, rather, by what you have for which you would not take money"<br /><br />I feel for your friend, his friends and his family. His "wealth" will be standing at the funeral pyre willing to trade all material splendor for his return. That request comes, perhaps, on another plane of understanding.<br /><br />We are all damaged goods...together we refine our raw humanity into well sculpted tools of survival. An artisan tending the home fires will always be able to master the blazing inferno the world presents to us as opportunity. Keep stoking the flames at your hearth, my friend!!!brain salad surgeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04019812714184901424noreply@blogger.com