Gary Carmell
I am a firm believer that perception is reality for most people. It’s for this reason that I don’t like to wade into politics because, in the words of Paul Simon, “A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest”. Another way of saying this is that people make up their minds first and then look for reasons to confirm their beliefs and ignore those that contradict them.
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Gary Carmell
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
—Chapter 1, Down the Rabbit Hole
The impact of higher mortgage rates has definitely thrown a wrench into the typical cause-and-effect relationship between rates and home prices.
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Gary Carmell
Now, I go down to Speaker’s Corner, I’m thunderstruck
They got free speech tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong
Industrial Disease by Dire Straits
Interest rates came down quite a bit and then shot up after the non-farm payroll report was released on Friday,
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Gary Carmell
The world lost a giant of a man and personality with the passing of Bill Walton last week. He was 71 and his death caught so many people by surprise as he kept his battle with cancer very quiet.
I have written in the past about Walton.
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Gary Carmell
Nine-mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile
Nothin’ left to do but smile,
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Gary Carmell
Harmony and me
We’re pretty good company
-Elton John and Bernie Taupen
One of the greatest investors of all time and brilliant minds passed away last week.
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Gary Carmell
Billie Jean King famously said that “pressure is a privilege.” To feel pressure in sports means that you have put yourself in a position to compete, challenge yourself, test your resolve and resilience, and put your training into action. And while almost everyone competes to win,
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Gary Carmell
As I have gotten older my interest in Austrian psychologist Carl Jung and his associated theories have taken on more importance for me. The more I read him, or probably more accurately, others’ writings about him since his works are very challenging to absorb,
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Gary Carmell
Other than the occasional goldfish and tropical fish, I never had any pets growing up. My first real introduction to having one is when we got my son Jacob a dog in June 2017. Since then Harry has brought so much joy and I am so grateful to have had the experience of having a pet,
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Gary Carmell
My son Jacob just turned 31. He has a very big heart and has had a life that has tested his resiliency in so many ways. As I have written about before, but worth mentioning again, he experienced a devastating stroke at 25 months.
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