On Earth Day the movie Forest Warrior was seen on You Tube. Forest Warrior is a Chuck Norris movie about being the defender of a mountain from the evils of a timber company. In the movie it was the boss of a local timber company who was the evil one, along with hired henchmen. Mr. Norris’ character was to ensure people and particularly children could use the forest, but not cut the trees down. The Chuck Norris character could shift shapes between animals and person in order to protect the spirit of the mountain. Similar to these types of movies, most of us have a piece of land we think or understand as special. When many more live on farms, it was a piece of the farm or nearby, as urbanites we tend to pick a park, just because we go there but few of us would want to live in the park for longer than the summer. In the movie, the bad guys were the timber companies, but it reality we need timber to build homes. Often times because building homes is labor intensive it provides jobs, the economy is moving because of credit is used to buy homes and then they have to be furnished. Afterwards the people need services and ideally the cycle continues with the next generation. In the world of cutting trees, it seemed when settlers first came to North America the ground was covered with trees and they were cut down by the millions and sent to Europe. Then the easy to get trees were cut and we had to learn to plant new ones and some of them are being harvested for building materials.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, one of the reasons why you want dividends is to be able to spend more time in nature and less in the city. There is often very few black and white lines, but a whole lot of grey. Enjoy the movies for the theme of spirt of the forest; but in reality remember most of your investments will involve some sort of grey.

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