Abundance

"Those who have enough

have

abundance;

those who have abundance

never have enough."

-- Raymond Davidson, Santa Cruz, California

Excess Baggage

According to an article by Judy Bachrach in Vanity Fair, Judith "Don't Call Me Judi" Giuliani, wife of Rudy of the same name:

• demands an entire plane seat for "Baby Louis," her Louis Vuitton handbag
• has been known to spend $40,000 in one week
• gets to fly away on a private Gulfstream IV jet
• shares a $4 million house in the Hamptons with the ex-mayor of New York
  
• shares a $5 million Upper East Side nine-room apartment with the presidential candidate

Power to the People!

(or at least to two of the people)

For Richer, For Poorer. . .

The genesis of this newly minted blog is a recent article in The New York Times entitled "The Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich."


Right there, on the upper-left corner of the Sunday NY Times of August 5, 2007, is a photo of one Hal Steger, 51, a marketing executive with an estimated net worth of $3.5 million.


His words form part of The Times's Quotation of the Day:


"But a few million doesn't go as far as it used to."


He is part of a new class, dubbed "working-class millionaires" by the piece's author, Gary Rivlin.


I grew up in a working-class housing project.


I am not a millionaire.


And if I were, would it be enough?


What constitutes "enough"?