Letter to the Bank #43

Dear Bullrider,

One of the most enduring issues I have with my attempts to communicate with you is the palpable fact that I am already morally compromised and all efforts to stand on my high horse and denunciate the appalling behavior of the bankers, the financiers, mortgage brokers blah blah blah are already undermined by my own efforts to capitalize on the crisis by refinancing again and again. The whole Tiger Woods debacle brings similar thoughts to mind. How can I or anyone point our cruel fingers without pointing also at ourselves. All this reminds me of the wonderful joke where Jesus, coming across a crowd hurling stones at a prostitute in the village square, denounces them with: Throw Ye the first stone who has not sinned! Whereupon his mum/mom emerges from the crowd with a huge boulder which she proceeds to toss at the poor girl so embarrassing her/his (you know who's) son.

It would be interesting to shine the same kind of intense light on those who do the finger pointing as they shine on those they all too often revel in exposing. This is why I do not spend too much time naming names. It is the idea of Trust, of doing good, that I grapple with, the awfulness and abundance of Greed, of unscrupulousness out there, that I wrestle with, both in the World at large and within, down in my liver, or wherever it is that those sort of tendencies reside.

Yours sincerely,

K W

PS-A case in point-People still are stoned to death in some countries, for real, hard as this is to believe, and we sit at our writing desk complaining about mere greed, moaning about mortgage payments, and about not having enough time to do our art.