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August 5, 2006
Volume 4, Number 15
ISSN 1554-6330

In this issue:

1. Carpenter Country
2. Top Drawer Article
3. Top Drawer Tips
4. Top Drawer Book Review
5. Top Drawer Satire

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CARPENTER COUNTRY
What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human Experience

 

August is a washed out month, all gray skies and high humidity.

Everyone and everything is soggy and sticky. Mold grows in cracks, algae blooms in ponds. Most of the wildlife has flown away, leaving the feeders to the hummingbirds – and soon they’ll head out too.

Though temperatures may yet shatter more records in the northern states, the end of summer sits on the horizon. In the steamy south, sweltering days and nights will continue to rule the long range forecast.

August makes Mother Earth unhappy too. She grumbles, rumbles and often spits rain. On occasion she blasts sultry heat waves that crack pavement. Other times she blows vicious howling winds that knock down trees, roil the seas and pull the sand off beaches.

Here in Carpenter Country, the dog days of summer will last for at least another six weeks. And while air conditioned homes, cars, stores and restaurants offer some relief, the hothouse of the great outdoors offers none at all.

As boredom settles around us like a dense fog, we wonder why Augustus Caesar, who renamed the Gladiola month after himself, forgot to include even one get-away holiday.

How great would a trip to Lake Louise in Canada be right now?

The word from our travel agent is – temperatures are cool and the exchange rate is hot. That surely sounds more favorable than the conditions we have here.

Pack the suitcase. Grab the car keys. Head for the airport.

Let’s go!

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TOP DRAWER ARTICLE

Economic Indicators
by
HL Carpenter

 

Economic indicators are statistical data that investors and economists use to help make predictions about the ups and downs of the economy. Indicators are also used to analyze economic performance.

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TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits

 

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TOP DRAWER BOOK REVIEW

by
HL Carpenter

 

The Extraordinary Healing Power
of Ordinary Things
by Larry Dossey, M.D.
ISBN 0-307-20989-X
305 pages; hardcover; $24.95
Harmony Books, New York, 2006

Sometimes simple is good. Not simple as in dumbed down or easy, but simple as in uncomplicated and pleasing to both eye and spirit. Things like plants and music – or bugs and dirt. Even unhappiness and doing nothing can have beauty and meaning.

Read the entire review here

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TOP DRAWER SATIRE

Reading in the Car
by
HL Carpenter

 

Have you read any good traffic signs recently? If not, you’ve plenty of company. Police organizations across the country are reporting a massive increase of violations by drivers who write off official signage. A novel solution: Teaching cars to read.

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