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Lovely and clever pictures Ken. I love jigsaws as they represent chaos and order both at the same time. In my childhood, when sick which called for two weeks in bed, my mother brought me jigsaws but I could do them so quickly that she could ill afford to keep buying them. So she bought four, mixed them up, took the box-pictures away, and set me up! It slowed me down no end, LOL. I wrote about it in my book:

"In order to more easily appreciate and understand what is happening in the financial world, I judged that the notion of a jigsaw is appropriate and will help to simplify an understanding of our complex money systems and their effects upon each of us every day. It is so complex that just one jigsaw might not be enough; perhaps we should try ten instead and see how this works for our clarity of understanding." [Page 26]

"‘Winning’ the lottery of life

Have you ever completed a jigsaw? It’s a game, just like real life, in which we all play games with each other seeking security and peace of mind and for me it is what life can be like. I have lived the jigsaw of life in a very privileged place. A South African once remarked to me: "You’re lucky, you have won the lottery." With disbelief, I denied that I had ever done so, and he responded: "But you were born in the UK and for us that means you have already won the lottery! Albert Einstein claimed that many of his inspirations, created through original thought, were realised by the use of 'mind games'. One of my 'mind games' is about The Financial Jigsaw puzzle."

"The Financial Jigsaw' puzzle mind-game

I want you to imagine a box in which there are ten jigsaws of one thousand pieces each, all mixed up and no picture on the box to help you understand what any one complete jigsaw might look like. Your objective and task is to sort all the individual pieces so as to eventually knit together complete pictures of all ten jigsaws. How would you go about it? What would you do first? Perhaps you might make a plan, a road-map if you will, following a methodology and thus working gradually towards the objective. I have been battling with this problem in the real world for over thirty years, and finally some of the jigsaw’s pieces are beginning to link together, in small sets of two or three items, offering clues to the overall emerging picture." [Pages 27-28]

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OK - the one piece I fabricated was in the "chicken puzzle" - and I'm going to take a closer picture of it now......real close.....and then I will share it - cause I doubt anybody could find this with the images above - I know it is there, but I couldn't find it - and I'm the one who made it....so, I'm going to take a serious close-up of this part of the puzzle - and share this and keep the silver Buffalo for myself for the time being!

So, I'm going to leave this text here "unposted" - let me go take the picture first....ok, I've taken two pictures - as soon as they arrive in my "inbox" I will copy them to the folder, then click "Post" on this and then add them to the end of the article.

So now - I'm just waiting....ok they have arrived.

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