Sunday Morning Coming Down

Barbara Eherenreich wrote a book "Nickel and Dimed to Death".  It was stories about surviving on minimum wage jobs.  Written in 2001, it might be considered an expose on life when you are paid $7.00@hour.  Just so you get where I'm coming from, I worked over thirty years in Miami Dade County in various positions related to job training, retraining, unemployment insurance, welfare, food stamps, and The Welfare to Work Program. My first job was washing dishes $1.25@hr, my last job was delivering advertising flyers and I was lucky to make $7.25@hr on a paper route for the Miami Herald. On October 1, 2025 the minimum wage in Florida was raised to $14.00@hr. Throughout my entire working career with the job training programs I have always felt that having a job that paid a wage through a job with an employer was better than sitting at home. And so this morning I read a story about Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel a major hedge fund. Ken moved his company/money from Illin...

From a column about Jane Austen's beliefs: Look with Mercy on the Sins we have this day committed, and in Mercy make us feel them deeply, that our Repentance may be sincere, & our resolutions stedfast of endeavouring against the commission of such in future. Teach us to understand the sinfulness of our own Hearts, and bring to our knowledge every fault of Temper and every evil Habit in which we have indulged to the discomfort of our fellow-creatures, and the danger of our own Souls.  Hey, it's Sunday. The language might be from another time and it certainly isn't AI. I'm reminded of Pascal's Wager.  Can't hurt, and it might help.