The Trials and Tribulations of Triumph; The story of Knowledgeable Neil F. Clifford.
Sunday, 07 February 2010 05:09:44 PM
Below I started to tell a tale of a lifetime. The day today is nearly one year since I updated this. I need follow through and work more on this.
The story you are about to read is a Love Story of The United States of America; a story about my family, work and the people I have had the pleasure to meet. This story of unknowns, founded on a theme of Today is a building Day has many levels of frustrations, hopes and dreams to be told and treasured! The story will seem more than a shear comedy, or drama. This is the story of mystery, crime, non fiction, and horror in our day and age. There are no reasons to be apologetic in the text, and the main goal will be the tone with which this story can be told again and again and again for generations to come. This is the story about TNT, Tone Neil Tone. The tone this story will be told begins with the premise that all people are good people and each of us have an intrinsic relationship and connection. I dedicate this novel about myself to each and every one of us that does care about life on earth and the other living creatures here with us at this time and those who came before us and the many that will come after us, the United States.
Contributions I have made to society are by some many and few or none by others, maybe I am not even known to them, imagine that, "someone not knowing Knowledgeable Neil F. Clifford?" I have received kindness and help from many people including strangers in my life of nearly forty eight years of living in America. My story can be characterized as an attempt to build character and backbone. I have the childhood story to tell, the teenage years, the apprenticeship and concert years, the engineering and directing years, the starting over years. Throughout the story I will revive the beginning of my philosophy and the theme of Today is a building Day.
I hear and see on the news about the tough and terrible times we as a nation and the world is experiencing and living through! These are my therapeutic thoughts about the day in this age of greed, credit, despair and little hope to many people I see in the news.
First and foremost I have this computer to type and utilize, bought on credit and still being paid for. I have established and used credit to my advantage for the past decade or so. I had credit before that and used it, never really abused it. Today I am experiencing the benefits of that credit. If all of these credit lines were taken away, I really wonder what might be left for me to enjoy or use.
I have a home and mortgage which I recently refinanced and lowered my payments from $1061 a month to around $500 a month. Only with a good credit score and a good job was this possible. This came after my failure to get elected primarily due to lack of money to get my message out to the voters.
I counted on others to carry the political message and help finance the campaign, but I am sadly mistaken about the results and the only thing to help with my anger and bitterness toward the election process and election cycles was to go back to work in the machine shop and get myself back on track to success by working and saving. My motto years ago became debt down cash up. I learned and heard that from a boss or owner of a company that was in bankruptcy court hearings. I liked the thought of cash up and debt down. One major problem though happened. I was laid off of work and began to live on credit.
Living on credit truly hurt me, yet it kept me going, through elections tries, college education, book purchases, eating, drinking and every facet of my life became credit usage to survive. I had no one to turn to for help or advice it seemed; I just had to make ends meet. My mom was suffering with Alzheimer’s disease in a nursing home among many other family issues I had to deal with.
I plan to continue to write more of my story here on my web site. Please check back for more of my story.
