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Creating a new normal for the future

es will always remain; often a thing.
unspoken but living in the I’d give you the moon
back of the mind and they dear and the twinkling stars
will be brought up again at above,
a next opportune occasion But all that I can offer you, is
for it. Put differences aside my un-dying love”
and focus on a common
positive objective. Isn’t that One can enjoy dreaming
what the art of impartial at night. It is liking living a
leadership is all about? second life when the lights
are down. Daydreaming
It is difficult to sort out what is a common habit and
dreaming is about. Oneirol- often exercised related
ogy is the scientific study of to politics. Not my kind of
dreams. Who cares, except thing. I believe in having a
for the Oneirologists? I won- vision and working towards
dered how much money it, and I believe in building
they make. I just happen to myself a new normal ver-
be more curious than the sion of the future. Isn’t that
average cat, yet am still what everyone should think
alive and kicking. There is of and get at it? Building
no fixed salary, but it is as- yourself your own new nor-
sumed that it is about US$ mal for the future, here and
by Cdr. Bud Slabbaert same time period, the last 45,473 dollars annually and now, and not sit, or dream,
PHILIPSBURG, ST. MAARTEN night of 2020 or 2021 and A message that came one has to hold advanced or wait. A difficult road can
— I don’t know when it the period before. Yet, it now, involuntarily in my college degrees for it. That lead to a beautiful destina-
was, the night of Decem- came over so strong that I mind during certain stages is more than what a Chi- tion! q
ber 31, 2020 or December remember it well: of sleep, but it pictured a romancist, a Pamistry spe-
2021, that I heard a lead- circumstance in the future. cialist makes; you know the
ing politician make the “Good night my friend, it’s One wonders. Dream In- one who reads someone’s
statement: “We have seen time for me to go. terpretation is the attempt palm of the hand some-
hardship, we have seen tri- What I have to say will only at drawing meaning from where in a backroom or
umph. We shall see more last one cigarette and dreams and searching for tent and predicts good for-
of both. We stood strong one last glass while I'm still an underlying message. tune for a couple of bucks.
in faith. Giving freely what standing here. Thank you What was the message
little we had and what little for the day and the night and what is happening You can give your own
we were. Never doubting under your roof, for the in the period before the thumbs up for one of the
that we spent ourselves for seat at your table, for every last night of 2020 or 2021? four base components of
a general good”. And then glass that I drank, for the Maybe the essence of it is dreaming as science sees
I woke up. It was only a plate that you added to just a reminder of what we it:
dream. Dreams don’t label your own, as if nothing was are dealing with currently 1. A form of thinking that
what time or year it was, more natural in the world. and how we deal with it. occurs under minimal brain
and they don’t put a name Thanks for the time that we Maybe we should be more direction, external stimuli
on persons. chatted away and for your alert to reality and think are blocked, and the part
patience when there was more about consequences of the brain that recognizes

Actually, the dream was more than one opinion. of actions or lack thereof, self, shuts down.
much longer that, this was Thank you that you never rather than the spur of 2. A form of experience
only the end before awak- asked when I came when the moment opinions and that we believed we expe-
ening. Prior to it was an- I went, and for your always decisions. Or else, conse- rience through our senses.
other scene that appeared open door. Thank you for quences may spook sooner 3. Something memorable.
to me in haze, mystery and the tolerance that is per- or later in a dream or night- 4. Have some interpreta- About the author
with a person who could manent within you. Thanks, mare. tion of experience by self. Cdr. Bud Slabbaert is
not be identified. I guess it that you never ask what's in the Chairman and Co-
must have reflected that it, or if it’s worth it.” It is amazing that people are Although there is no offi- ordinator of the Carib-
categorized by what party cial polling, but rumors go bean Aviation Meetup,
or following that they seem that most believe in option an annual results and
to belong to. Wouldn’t it be number one. solution oriented con-
better if persons individual- ference for stakeholders
ize themselves again and Who doesn’t enjoy listen- of ‘airlift’ in the Caribbe-
stand straight for their true ing to the songs and melo- an. Slabbaert’s back-
own thoughts and sayings, dies of minstrels, yet one of ground is accentuated
rather than seeking the them realizes that: by aviation business
shelter of a sympathizing “Times are getting hard, development, strategic
group and seeking comfort boys, money is getting communication, and
in the word unity which re- scarce, journalism. In accor-
sults in complacency? I’m If times don't get much bet- dance with his study of
rather in a group of diverse ter, boys, gonna leave this Economy in his younger
opinions disagreeing, be- place, years in Germany, he is
cause it represents a chal- I promised I would buy you authorized to carry the
lenge. It is the challenge to a big, lovely diamond ring, title of ‘State Certified
unify without wiping out the The way things are turning Economist’.
differences. The differenc- out right now, I can’t afford