Katy’s Weblog
“Now I understand why real estate agents are skinny.”
That was a comment from my client after she saw all the work I was doing for her in the purchase of her house.
Most people don’t really know what a real estate agent does. They think we just drive around showing houses to people. That is the easiest part of the job.
The story is so simple, the writing is so easy to read, yet the concepts about life are so poignant.
In the book, Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro, the artist Masuji Ono made a decision to use his artistic abilities for what he thought was a greater good. Instead of painting the “floating world” of physical beauty and pleasures, he chose to join the imperialist movement in Japan that led the country into World War II.
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.