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This is going to be a long post, so brace yourself. I have been doing a lot of reading about personal finances in the last year or so, and since one of my goals this year has to do with Money I figured that I would share with you, an article that I found interesting. I found the Original article at the online version of the Smithsonian Magazine. The article highlights a Memo / Contract between a father and his son. The memo was written on the first of May, 1920 :

A recent posting in the Wall Street Journal a discussion on the resurgence of the City of Chicago has a quote from Russian writer, Vasily Grossman, “Man never understands that the cities he has built are not an integral part of Nature. If he wants to defend his culture from wolves and snowstorms, if he wants to save it from being strangled by weeds, he must keep his broom,spade, and rifle always at hand. If he goes to sleep, if he thinks about something else for a year or two, then everything is lost. The wolves come out of the forest, the thistles spread and everything is buried under dust and snow”