DaydreamOO supported this Intent 36 weeks ago

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  meadysmusings: Sounds lovely and different from your other business/financial kinda Intents! Good on ya! Supported! And yep your pic is kinda small from here but it looks more relaxing...
  
  
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  marcj: I support you Ray! Great photo as well
  
  

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DaydreamOO supported this Intent 36 weeks ago

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  meadysmusings: No Dana you can't go back! Now I know you are a man! And yes it does change for sure how you are perceived or how people perceive things! Will let you answer the qu. 'How does your garden grow?' as it unfolds. YOu know from the nursery rhyme...Mary Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?
  
  
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  meadysmusings: Haha! I see American Capitalism is good and alive then!? Dana you know I had thought you were a female all this time! Don't know why I guess I just got that feeling from my first interaction with you on my gardening blog and also I know more female Danas than male ones. Althoguh I know it is a unisex name. I dont know perhaps it is cultural for me like I think I was taught growing up that like my grandmother/mother and stuff would say the Indo-Trini version of don't buy things that people have tears on etc. Like I know here the bank always resells repossessed cars and I know someone who only buys cars then but we always look at that as ... I think it can have bad vibes but it depends on who is owner as you are saying Dana but some people do cry over it and can be focusing bad energy on the new owners. BTW I grew up Hindu and so is why I say 'bad karma' cause when i put it in ' ' I mean I'm using it in the new age sense but my intepretation of it on a personal level is a bit different. But to me in the Hindu sense or in my cultural sense I think it more like what well Ray is trying to do...how many grandmother and they would have grown up and my ancestors they would have helped out the person in a community way so they could somehow keep their belongings so is why they would see it like that...compassion I guess...of course remember in this context these belongings were the bare things needed to live on...not people buying boats and huge houses and cars beyond their means...if a person is really poor and you take away their little piece of sustenance you can see why they would have tears...I'm not sure if Americans appreciate that level of need to survive? Of course Trinidadians today are pretty well off too and I can see people here losing homes soon they cant pay the mortgages for...and some how I dont think they will be as C'est La Vie about it as Americans...dunno...I still don't think I'd buy such a house out of the bust...so I'm a bad business woman that's for sure! :)
  
  
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  danashields: Oh...and on that other subject: There's a successful author whom I know who writes childrens books along with his other stuff. He does it under a woman's pen name because people won't buy (or sell) childrens' books written by men. So I'm absolutely thrilled that you've thought I was a woman. That means I am, in part, achieving my goal here on Intent. And if you would like to continue to do that--think of me as a woman--please feel perfectly free.
  
  
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  danashields: Homeless at one time fifteen years ago, I slept under an orange tree. And I remember being grateful that it had so many low hanging fruit. But you're totally right about the degree of destitution. It's true that I have never missed a meal, no matter how difficult things have gotten. And I have a feeling that hunger would change my attitude about this topic entirely. So thank you for helping me to discover the seriousness of the need in some places in the world so that I can better atune myself to a solution. I like to save my money at Kiva.org. I treat it like a passbook savings account with 0% interest, which isn't a bad return at all if you've lost a lot of money in the stock market. For some reason, I'm drawn toward SE Asia. I think because posts from that region are mostly about farming and not selling pre-paid cell phones or driving taxis. Same thing with eastern Europe and South America. Mostly farming cooperatives. It's gratifying to lend money to them and create liquidity where previously for them, there wasn't any. As far as the garden....I pine for my home in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm in Michigan for right now working. -7F degrees yesterday morning. So cold it burns your cheeks. So no gardens for right now. But I'm so envious of those who are well-placed who can have a garden. Be sure and post some pictures when you can.
  
  
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  Razz: Very Noble Intent Ray, Please share the......... How, and please be specific, I will take note, seriously. Razz
  
  
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  meadysmusings: BTW Dana I now remember about you and your front yard garden! Get it going in the now man! What you waiting for? My seedlings are coming along! :) But I dont want to boast about them and get 'the bad eye' on them just yet they are in such a crucial stage of growth! :) You see me and my superstitions again! :)
  
  
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  danashields: In fact, now that I think about it, nothing in the whole world could make me sadder if we lost our house would be if it sat empty. I could almost cry thinking about that. I would want it filled with kids and laughter and the smells of cooking. Maybe a garden in its front yard.
  
  
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  Razz: Bad karma to get a good deal? I don't thinks so. No way Babita, my Karma is so good that great deals are always coming to me. They are sent to me day after day. I would be remiss to turn my back on such blessings...in any and all forms. In love and peace, Razz PS the only bad karma about some of those foreclosed homes is that many of those foreclosed on, destroyed the house, in some cases totally....and their karma along with it.
  
  
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  danashields: I think there are some very good outcomes among those whose houses have been foreclosed. I've taken some big losses from time to time, and it's interesting, at some level, they're freeing. For example, I had a legal wrangling with someone, and it resulted in a judgment against me that was not at all favorable. The outcome was actually quite shocking. As a result, we had to sell our sailboat, dubbed 'Cordelia' after Shakespeare's character of the same name. I sold the boat at a price well below what it could've gotten at that time. When I signed the title over, I never looked back at it to take one last look at its mooring. I've not missed that sailboat one single day. And I'm not so sure I'd ever get another one if given the opportunity. Once I'd been freed from it, my wife and I began hiking in North Georgia and North Carolina. We started traveling into downtown Atlanta and learning more about its culture and rich history. We camped. Picnics at the park. Since that time, we've continued paring down to the most rudimentary needs. More and more. So I never see someone who has "lost" something as a victim. I wish Cordelia's current owner only blessings and joy and a favorable wind. If we lose our beautiful log cabin, I will consider myself very blessed to have been its caretaker for a few years and will, likewise, wish its new owner nothing but the same unceasing bliss we've derived from it. Only good Karma comes from loss. P.S. I've begun looking at possibly building a teardrop trailer this spring. They're really cute, and if we were ever to lose our house, I want to make sure we have a fun place to live that we can pull behind our french fry grease burning mercedes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TN6ep38qAE
  
  
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  meadysmusings: Hi Dana...I've not interacted with Ray on here before and the only post I've read from her so far is the one on her Grandfather's Sikhism...cause I dont like to read the finance/politics kinda posts for loads of reasons. Also Im not American so some of the issues arent applicable to me although some are globally applicable too or in the context that my country does a lot of business with the US and is very tied to it being a small island state etc. But yes I've read Ray's profile and she appears to be a 'bigwig' in the area of Finance and it is good that such 'bigwigness' can be put to good causes. I chatted with a man randomly online the other day from the US and he had bought a house because it was foreclosed and I asked him if he wasnt feeling like he was buying 'bad karma' and he said yep he was worried bout that but it was up for sale for quite a while...I always feel weird about buying things a bank had to repossess so to speak. It just doesnt feel right to be cashing in on someone else's sorrows...it is bound to be filled with all the well 'bad karma'! But I guess some will see if as sensibly cashing in on a good deal. Of course it is also what house flipping in all about in a way I guess and there is always the boom and bust thing in housing...
  
  
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  danashields: Hi, Babita. Nice to see ya. I agree. This is an excellent intention. My impression of Ray and from what she's shared in the past is that she's a pretty savvy on business health and knows a whole lot about the real estate market. So if anyone is adroit enough to pull off a solution measured in real results rather than hype, I believe she's the one to do it. Personally, since I haven't heard from her lately on Intent, I'd like to see her share some ideas.
  
  
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  meadysmusings: Such a blessed thing!
  
  

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