Market day

Our society seems to place a lot of emphasis on being sophisticated and cultured, wealthy and upwardly mobile.

Sounds good, but most of that stuff is pretty superficial.

It's also relatively easy to create it as a façade.

We might be better off to look for calm intelligence and patience. Someone who knows how to really listen and hear what people are actually saying.

After that, look for people who follow through. Doing what you say you will do carries a lot of weight in my world. Grabbing hold of the streamers on hot air balloons seems exciting, but who knows where you'll float off to.

All the clever hucksters and snake oil salesmen in the world can sound good when they are in their element spewing off trite, well worn speeches, but once their products have proved to be nothing more than scented Vaseline coating their pockets to catch the gold, people are still dying from the poverty and disease they had in the beginning.

Our world is really not much better off than the villages of old. Main street is just longer and the carnivals are bigger, but the people are still struggling just to get along.