Sábado, Febrero Veinte, 2009
Saturday morning in Sayulity, and the tea is brewing as I put in CD 5 of 25 for my Wall Street Basics refresher course. It’s the last CD for class 1 and one key point that Gary Williams makes that struck me was, “…it is the discipline to do a half dozen things everyday that other people don’t.” For anybody interested in Gary’s classes, let me know.
I have completed books #6 and #7……yeah! Again, #7 was called “Three Cups of Tea” a story about Greg Mortenson. It is great!!! As I write a few notes about the book, I am sipping on my third cup of tea. So as not to give away the entire story, I shall only include a few clips from the book.
1. 580 letters, 12 rams, and 10 years of work was a small price to pay, Mortenson thought, for such a moment.
2. The enemy is ignorance.
3. The only way to defeat it [terrorism] is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.
4. Essentially, the state is failing its students on a massive scale and making them far too easy for the extremists who run many of the madrassas to recruit.
5.”I supported the war in Afghanistan,” Mortenson said after he introduced himself. I’m here because I know that military victory is only the first phase of winning the war on terror and I’m afraid we’re not willing to take the next steps.
The carnival is in town and vendors have setup their shops on many of the dusty streets of Sayulita. I expected a noisy sleepless night with all the music, but I was pleasantly mistaken. I shall attempt to capture the essence of the festive mood in town with some photos today.
Today is also moving day, so I thought. The photo above is of my new spot. It consists of two levels with the highest one covered by a palapa. More pics on Sunday. Enjoy!
Saturday morning in Sayulity, and the tea is brewing as I put in CD 5 of 25 for my Wall Street Basics refresher course. It’s the last CD for class 1 and one key point that Gary Williams makes that struck me was, “…it is the discipline to do a half dozen things everyday that other people don’t.” For anybody interested in Gary’s classes, let me know.
I have completed books #6 and #7……yeah! Again, #7 was called “Three Cups of Tea” a story about Greg Mortenson. It is great!!! As I write a few notes about the book, I am sipping on my third cup of tea. So as not to give away the entire story, I shall only include a few clips from the book.
1. 580 letters, 12 rams, and 10 years of work was a small price to pay, Mortenson thought, for such a moment.
2. The enemy is ignorance.
3. The only way to defeat it [terrorism] is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.
4. Essentially, the state is failing its students on a massive scale and making them far too easy for the extremists who run many of the madrassas to recruit.
5.”I supported the war in Afghanistan,” Mortenson said after he introduced himself. I’m here because I know that military victory is only the first phase of winning the war on terror and I’m afraid we’re not willing to take the next steps.
The carnival is in town and vendors have setup their shops on many of the dusty streets of Sayulita. I expected a noisy sleepless night with all the music, but I was pleasantly mistaken. I shall attempt to capture the essence of the festive mood in town with some photos today.
Today is also moving day, so I thought. The photo above is of my new spot. It consists of two levels with the highest one covered by a palapa. More pics on Sunday. Enjoy!
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