We are all from somewhere, and most of the places have tended to be smaller towns from which we ended in larger cities. In is always great to look through the travel magazines and find a story about your area of the world. One of the great secrets of …. for you know it is true. The physical features such as the hills, lakes because they do not move means to truely appreciate the area you have to embrace their characteristics both good and not so good. For example the lake is magnificent 340 days a year, but every once in a while it can batter the shoreline, send the northern winds through your bones, the ride into the lake can be rough, the fish do not bite, if the lake freezes, sometimes the lake does not freeze enough. The lake and other features has help to define you while you lived there.

Linking to dividend stocks – most of the time they are regularly performing companies, they do good things, sell products that people want and pay a dividend. Nothing extraordinary until you compare them to what else is there. Then you appreciate the consistency of the dividend and the company’s consistency in staying ahead in the marketplace.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions