Blog 253 – 03.18.2016

Several years ago when I began to contemplate, think about, my end game I started nursing a little dream. I imagined a place, a big ranch house like on the old TV show Bonanza somewhere in the northwestern United States where you could see snow capped mountains year round and with enough property around it to support a large family. I envisioned a place for people who have no place, people who have for whatever reason fallen through the cracks, the homeless, the forgotten, the ones that don’t fit in anywhere. Hence the name of my dream ranch “The Bar None The Less.”

I had several ideas for financing such a place, none very conventional. I even thought of writing several popular books and setting up a foundation with the proceeds. My more unconventional ideas would probably bring in more cash and make the place more self sustaining. Unless I win the lottery, very unlikely as I do not play, or write the Great American Novel and it is an almost overnight success the dream house will probably not materialize in the next few years at least. When I retire from my day job in five years I plan to devote most of my time to writing and acquire a piece of property and begin with a small writer’s cabin.

I hope to live long enough to see that dream come true and if not to pass it on to someone who will. I can see a world where there is such a place within a hundred miles of every person on this big blue ball. Ambitious or Big Dream and why not? Or I might just settle for the little writer’s cabin where I can just retire from my day job and write uplifting, encouraging pieces, songs, and talks. Perhaps that alone might my best gift to this world and to myself. I have spent most of my life thinking it was my job to take care of someone else and don’t think I ever thought it was Job One to take care of me.

Louise Hay says that most of our problems stem from not loving ourselves enough. I think she is right. You cannot truly love and appreciate anyone else unless you love and appreciate yourself.

You friend and fellow traveler,
David White