A Goodreads quote .... do you want to live forever?

Well do you?  There are ways to do so

you can mutate into Wolverine - and have fantastic healing powers such that aging is not a problem

imagine those telomeres ....... really fantastic

You cant mutate into a Time Lord, so if you have any ambitions about being Doc ...(insert number here), the first you have to find where they hid their planet.  It wasnt destroyed after all.... or was it.

the other way, more simple - at least to my mind - is to write - and leave footprints in the ether of digital wizardly.  i have bits and pieces scattered in the internet.

i already have a published poem in the Library of Congress - and unless an entity bombs the repository, that's like living forever, ..... aint it?  And i want to write more

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. 

Ray Bradbury

September 2, 1932: Science fiction master Ray Bradbury was a 12-year-old boy when he walked into a carnival tent and met Mr. Electrico—a moment that he credits with making him want to be a writer. The performer tapped him with an electrified sword and shouted: "Live forever!"

Goodreads quotes - on books

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. 


Toni Morrison
Happy 83rd birthday, Toni Morrison! The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner writes rich, sweeping novels, about the black experience in America. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford—'Toni' comes from her baptismal name, 'Anthony.'

Remembering my Dad, a Father's Day thought

Dad.
Everytime i write a post, or look at my old-style hand-written journal entries, i am reminded of my Dad.
He had a meticulously kept medical journal as well as a regular journal. 

I was able to read one of his journal - on the Death March.  Made me cry.
I was thinking perhaps other people might like to read it, so i am asking my Dad to send me a dream so i will know it is alright to have it published......

i havent found his other journals, but then i havent had the time to really go over the papers.

As for his medical records. i saw it, he would have time and date he had his bp taken, when he took what meds, and if there was any reaction.

Quote to start the day from Goodreads

 
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.


J.R.R. Tolkien
The author of The Lord of the Rings was born on this day in 1892.

So, have you decided what to do with the time that is given to you?
Oft times we dont exactly know what to do.  i am very glad that this blog has given me the opportunity to do some of the things i want to do -

write, share stuff i know, and help - even in just SSS-related matters

The Professionals

in SSS parlance or talk, the formal sector is always associated with employment. 
and the informal sector are all the others - Voluntary, Self-Employed, and OFWs
all of these fall under the informal category

I wanted a nice catchy phrase for the informal sector comprised of professionals, so i figure - then let me just call them the Professionals

just as an aside, if the term sounds familiar to you, there used to be an old British show called the Professionals, Bodie and Doyle and George Cowley were characters in the TV show, filmed between 1971-1981.  i watch vintage tv and vintage film, just in case you want to know.

The group i call the Professionals are self-employed individuals who are issued licenses.  Who are these people you ask?  Physicians, Engineers, Lawyers, Accountants, Nurses, Physical and Occupational Therapists, Vets, Teachers etc.

Artists are not issued licenses, but i consider them Professionals.  Afterall, people purchase their creations.


Not all of these Pros think of their retirement especially those who just do freelance work. I do enjoin that they sign up with SSS, and some form of Provident Fund (or PERA for that matter, if the government ever implements this package)

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or just as simply, put money in the bank - the only problem is that doing this doesnt get you ahead much, interest rates being what they are.