During prosperous times in life these thoughts must be common to all. Only a fool doesn't know, from experience, how fast the rewards of hard and devoted work can vanish. How many will lie, cheat, or blatantly steal the wealth of another? Where can one secure his or her future? Who can one trust for advise or education? How best the money accumulated be put to work? One of the oldest educational writings, although often self-contradicted, explains, "A righteous man leaves an inheritance to his Children's Children while the sinners wealth is given to the righteous". This term sinner can be paralleled to many English words and seen in many circumstances. The idiot, the foolish, the stupid, the bad, the wicked, etc.. etc.. etc.. In this instance, it is the foolish one that gives up everything. Is there a man, or a person, that wants to be the fool? At the age of twelve I went deer hunting for the first time. It was on a friends property. A Farm in Williamstown. M...
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