Bernie Madoff
6 Mar 2011
Have just driven back over the Kaimais in the rain after catering a wedding in Hamilton. Lyn and I followed Rick and Courteney in the truck, Jelte and Ali were in their car, and Hannah and Andrew stayed with his Mum in Hamilton. Its been wet all day, and the drive felt long, abiet leavened considerably by the chat that flowed between Lyn and I.
A delightful wedding for very special people - its nice to come back feeling like the mission has been happily accomplished. We haven't unloaded the truck - all the staff at the restaurant had gone by the time we got back, and its wet and dark, so will get up in the am to do that.
Have however sat down at my desk before heading to bed, to do my breathing exercises, and chanced upon this rather fascinating interview with Bernie Madoff, done over the phone from prison.
I read about this man first in Vanity Fair a couple of years back, and he's fascinated me ever since, becos he embodies to me, all that has gone wrong with the financial shenanigans in this world, where the pursuit of money, purely for the sake of having more money, is what life seems to all about to some people.
An approach which in this instance, has come horribly unstuck. Sobering reading.
I tend to be a believer in the thought that what goes round, comes round....
Time for bed methinks!
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