Richard Gere

I would rather be loved
than have money and
all that other stuff.

~ Richard Gere
American – Actor Born: August 31, 1949

Porte Ponderings:

So, the age old question of what is more important Love or Money.

It is so idealistic to say Love is the most important thing, but that’s so easy to say if you have a good comfortable life.

A recent study in Canada showed that if you give a windfall amount of $7,500 to a homeless person, they will take that money, find a home and improve their living conditions. Contrary to the belief that they would just spend it on drugs or alcohol, they improved their lives and were able to get off the streets and continued to improve their ‘stability’ 6 months later. So, a certain amount of money is needed for a home and to give hope out of a hopeless situation.

Love is much easier when you have that minimum level of security.

I think both are needed.

As the Irish prayer says: may you have enough.

May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet,
enough trials to keep you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human,
enough hope to keep you happy, enough failure to keep you humble,
enough success to keep you eager, enough friends to give you comfort, enough faith and courage in yourself to banish sadness, enough wealth to meet your needs and one thing more; Enough determination to make each day a more wonderful day than the one before.

I’m one of the fortunate people that has enough.

I took my tri-pod on my walk yesterday and took multiple shots using my auto-bracketing feature. I tried the HDR feature in Corel Paintshop Pro to combine the sets of photos into HDR. The combined photos seem to have more depth with the multiple layers, so it is a technique I will probably try again for landscape photos.