Loose Change
Benjamin Pinkhasik blogs at Alef: The NEXT Conversation about how his thoughts on Money evolved over the years.
My first lesson in dealing with money took place on one of those long double buses with a stretchy accordion middle. I must have been six or seven years old at the time and was holding a shiny new coin. While this doesn’t sound like much, it was enough to buy a delicious, carbonated, syrupy drink, and I was looking forward to having one that day.
For a six-year-old, those long buses held incredible allure as the middle rotated while the bus took turns.
“You should put that away,” I remember my father telling me, pointing to the coin held loosely in my fingers.
But did I listen?
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