I guess my novel The Imaginary Revolution is not going to be immortal, but I did get the “Tenets of Common Wealth” out of it, a philosophy of life in ten words:
1. Act in love.
2. Go in peace.
3. Give more than you receive.
(Oops. Eleven.)
In matters of money, you should spend less than you receive, in order to have some left when you can’t work anymore.
In matters of human interaction, though, you should give more than you receive. A life of love is about caring without an expectation of something in return.
It’s an interesting equation: When you give more than you receive, you receive back more than you expected anyway.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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