View #29

Jewel in the night... How many light bulbs are burning in this scenery; how much electricity being used; Times Square must be bright as day right now. And yet, all the electricity in the world doesn't light up the sky like the sun. One sun does all that.

View #28

Yesterday's high winds blew all the bad things away, and there is a real quiet stillness to the day... Stock market is bounding upwards after a slight downturn - seems to be the post announcement pattern.

Heard this today: I don't know what tomorrow holds but I know who holds tomorrow. (Hint: It's not Ben Bernanke... or the Senate for that matter.)

View #27

Don't let the seemingly static, solitary cloud fool you - this is turning out to be a spectacularly windy day (the river is less deceiving with all its rippling ripples). If only there was such a wind for the market - a sort of Kamikaze to blow the bears away... Less than 2 more hours 'til the FOMC announcement.

View #26

A damp, cloudy morning - nonetheless beautiful. The market could go either way today; sort of like a child at Christmas who doesn't know whether what he did this year amounted to naughtiness or nastiness - will it be a toy train set or a lump of coal...

The market always can go either way - the market reminds us of this from time to time.

View #25

A brilliant fire of a dawn this morning. Will today's Primaries in Florida affect the market...?

Thought of the day: It is the same sun that to us appears different each day depending on weather conditions.

View #24

Dawn of a new day; markets set for a negative start; globally stocks have gone down except in Europe where the ECB had decided to keep prices in check by not lowering interest rates. January-February are historically slow months for the market anyway; perhaps it is a good time to let the various counter-recessionary measures to take effect. I doubt that the FOMC announcement this Wednesday will move the markets too much.

Thought of the day: we each are small and the universe is infinite; somewhere within each of us is a connection to the infinite.

View #23

Bathed in the glow of the setting sun. Ready for another week - of market turmoil...?

Character isn't something you put on and off like a mask; resolve to be a person of character in all situations no matter how hard the going gets, is part and parcel of what character (and character-building) is.