We definitely got hit with a cold snap today, and you can bet I was fully bundled-up while out and about. But on a more positive note, it looks like starting tomorrow, our temps are going to be above thirty degrees during the day this coming week. I ask again, what’s happened to winter?
It sure didn’t seem like a normal Friday with the number of calls and emails I received, and on a short notice, I was asked to show two homes later this morning to a buyer I’ve been working with, and luckily I was able to get him into both of them. One of them happened to be in Clear Lake, and believe you me, their asking prices in comparison to Mason City’s, are markedly higher.
Once I had those showings taken care of, I stopped over to a long-time client’s home and helped with getting some things done which required just a little more elbow grease than he was able to supply. Of course he was demanding that I take money for what little I did, and my doubled-down response was, “Just remember, a friend in need, is a friend indeed.” He’s just one of the very many seniors in our midst who’re being held hostage whenever trying to get even the littlest of maintenance things done. Because his eyesight is not the greatest, it took me less than thirty seconds to get a furnace filter changed which normally takes him a good frustrating half hour or more to get that same chore accomplished. Doing those little things for him, is always a delightful way of paying it forward on my part. I finally agreed to take a lump of dark chocolate for payment. Too funny!
I’ve already got showing appointments scheduled for this coming Monday, so it looks like our buyers are beginning to get all the more restless, but unfortunately, there’s so few active listings to be shown, which has got me all the more convinced the listing I’ll likely be taking in the coming weeks, will end up selling very quickly.
A late afternoon call came in from my friend out East whom I’d not spoken with in a number of weeks, so we ended up being on the phone for a good length of time. Since we’ve known each other for several decades, we were freely speaking our minds on the subjects of religion and politics, which for whatever reason, has in these times, become intertwined.
Of course I posed my favorite question again which was, “What do you believe the core of all evil is?”, and without even waiting for an answer, I firmly stated, “Fear, is by all means, the core of all evil.” I then went on to explain myself, along with offering up a number of examples. Before ending my little ‘speech’, I went on to say that even Scripture states, ‘Those who live in fear, dwell in darkness.’
The reason I’ve been asking the question to the many, is because I’m finding all the more of our politicians and those in the religious right, using fear to bend people to their ways of thinking, which I believe is terribly wrong. It also appears even the most intelligent people we know, are being ‘bent’ to believe some of the silliest of ideas, and all thanks to the sub-medias and those ‘tribal’ circles which are actually working very hard at propagandizing our general public.
I just happened to catch a few lines of an article today which I didn’t have time to read, and then later couldn’t find, which said something about a troubling pattern that’s beginning to show up with our general public, and that being even the highly educated are falling for some really bizarre conspiracy theories, and according to the author, it’s going to make far greater problems for our general public in the future, and believe me, I’m seeing it happening right here in River City. To this day, I’m still in shock over how polluted the mind of a very intelligent professional has become, and so much so, I try very hard not to engage in any sort of semi-intelligent conversation. Yes, it’s that bad. I’d like to be a mouse in the the pockets of such people, just to find out where they’re picking up such garbage. I’d be willing to wager it’s coming out of those streaming social medias.
When reading about Alexey Navalny’s death in that Siberian prison, I was almost brought to tears knowing how much that poor man had been innocently suffered for simply reporting the truth about Putin. Can you imagine what it must’ve been like for him to be in solitary confinement for those extended periods of time?
What really gets my dander up, is whenever these crazy reporters like Tucker Carlson, and those Putin-loving politicians we have, legitimizing Putin’s actions, when knowing fully-well, he’s way up on the charts of being personally responsible for the deaths of thousands, and perhaps millions of people. Without a doubt, his soul is as black as coal, and that’s even if he’s got one. Some day, and hopefully soon, he’ll get his deserved comeuppance, along with all those who’ve been aiding him in his extended reign of terror.
Tonight’s One-liner is: We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
