and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. ~Ayn Rand Anthem

Just when you least expect it, you open your email and you see a contact from Active Rain. This normally means good things. A referral, a question one of the members needs help with, the opportunity to earn business!

Sometimes though, it's the dreaded MEME. This one came at me from an unexpected source. A new associate, Eric McGowan, had tagged me. I quickly responded to him that I would get to it soon but tragically I have NO BOOKS in my new office. I went home that evening with every intention of completing this from my home office but "dinner happens". This has been going on for several days, meaning to do the MEME, not dinner.

Today I got tagged again, from a more expected source, Jennifer Bukaty. For some one who reads as much as I do, this should be easy! Still no books in the office and since my reading lately veers from Chick Lit to hard core Economic books I'm not sure I'd want to bring any in.

What really is a MEME but a request  to share information about yourself? So rather than following the page 56, third sentence guidelines I'm going off the reservation and am going to share part of something that is, in paperback, 56 pages long.

"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character." This is part of John Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I can't think of a book I more admire or one that is more appropriate in this time of bail outs and hand outs, in this age of entitlement.

This may not be in the proper format but it will certainly tell you something about me. MEME