In times of trouble people often buy gold and gold coins as a store of wealth that is easy to transport, easy to hide and is universally acceptable.
I bought a gold coin once back in the 70s. I think it cost me about $200. Last week I found it in an old box of important [...]
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Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
In children's circuses could stay their troubles?
There was a time they could cry over books,
But time has set its maggot on their track.
Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe.
What's never known is safest in this life.
Under the skysigns they who have no arms
Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost
Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best.
-- Dylan Thomas, "Was There A Time" Translator
By N2H