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October 02, 2004
What do you wish for?
There is a photo exhibit hanging in the Old Man River Cafe showing the refugees from Thailand who came here recently. The photographer took the photos as part of the delegation that went to Thailand to visit their refugee camp. These are very good photographs and it’s interesting to see how they were living there.
One photo showed a line of children waiting for something. The caption by the photo talked about how one child was asked what he’d like to do when he grows up and the child simply replied, “I want to go to America.”
I was talking to my wife tonight about a picture of a Porsche 911 GT2 that she had on her desktop. It’s a beautiful car that can go from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. This reminded her of discussion she had a long time ago with one of her coworkers who had just come back from an Auto Show. He saw a car he really liked for 185,000 dollars. My wife laughed and said, for that price it better come with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths!
At class the other night one of the phrases we practiced was, “What would you do if you had a lot of money?” One of my classmates repeated a line from the Bare Naked Ladies song, “If I had a Million Dollars.” which kind of pokes fun at this idea of suddenly striking it rich.
Tonight at dinner my niece was talking about how she wishes the candidates for Presidency would stop attacking each other and talk about the issues and what they could do about them.
We all wish for different things. Me? I wish for world peace, peace in families, love between all people. Is it too much to ask? For the price we are paying for it, it had better come with 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms!
Everyone wishes for different things. What is it we are all looking for?
Posted by carl1236 at October 2, 2004 11:22 PM | Attitude