40 years

Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness.

Honeywell computer debuted 40 years ago as a kitchen appliance.

and Woodstock was happening during summer 1969.

That year,  simultaneous demonstrations in  D.C. and S.F. to protest ( Hell no, we won’t go) against the war in Vietnam.

Now we start counting down toward the end of this decade, with ambivalence in our economic life (awaiting to be “stimulated”).

California couldn’t unlock its budget impasse. With an economy behind only 7 countries, it’s a country in itself.

I used to live in CA. And now West Palm Beach. I feel like I have been abroad for the past two years.

That’s how unique CA is to the rest of the country (it had its own protest 40 years ago, without having to join their counterparts in D.C.).

The whole world has been exposed to California scenery via Hollywood, the entertainment capital of the world.

California came up with an innovation. Wall Street finances it. And Washington regulates and taxes it.

California has Hollywood ( San Fernando Valley, porn capital of the world) and Standford (Silicon Valley).

I often wonder where  the baby boomers  ended up? corporate board room? or living in a ranch in Portland?

So much passion and desire for change. Will 40 years be enough to mellow them out? Or the 40 years  is just the normal wilderness experience for a kind of  “mountain-top” epiphany?

Show me the tablets! Thou shall not waste thy bandwidth? (Abundance or scarcity mentality – Chris Anderson, Wired).

Love thy “Facebook” friends as thyself. I thought I heard a voice that says ” let my people borrow”.