IN THE PRESENT & NEWS BITS

9/15/2008

In the Present

As you attend to your affairs and respond to the demands of daily life, realize they can all be kept in perspective simply by focusing your attention on that which is essential.

Inevitably, everything will be taken care of, effortlessly, when you recognize you are residing within the real.

NEWS BITS

MAJOR FINANCIAL NEWS: Bank of America takes over Merrill Lynch & Co. for $50 Billion. (The Wall Street Journal)

Barack Obama shatters fundraising record by growing $66 Million buckaroos in the month of August. (LA Times)

This weekend I toppled in laughter at the Tina Fey-Palin skit that kicked off the 34^th season of S.N.L. (Washington Post)

I painstakingly watched the made-for-TV Coco Chanel biopic this weekend and can say she was a feisty and sexy woman. Walks like the boss, talks like a boss. (LA Times)

Ron Galella: The man who popularized the ‘modern celebrity.’ (NY Magazine)