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In this episode of The Wide Moat Show, I sat down with Chris Volk, a pioneer in the net lease REIT industry, long-time CEO, and author of The Value Equation. Chris has been involved in over $20 billion of net lease transactions and has helped build three public net lease REITs,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ✨️ "We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair." "Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen." "Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." 🎨 J.G. Lange (1811–1887)

Give this a read... Kenneth C. Steven

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." ~ Aldous Huxley The Tow Path at Argenteuil 🎨 Claude Monet (1875)

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Pause a moment, and contemplate... "The soul as guide, showing the way." A watercolour by William Blake for Dante's Purgatorio, Canto IV II.

"If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile ... you've beaten them." ~ George Orwell

A super super cosy tribute to the creator of the Redwall series 🔥 Brian Jacques at Rest 🎨 Chris Dunn

A philosophical essay by William James called 'The Will to Believe' is one that I often return to; and the ending of it, where he quotes another, is something that I hope you will find both useful and inspirational. This is how it goes... "I began by a reference to Fitz James

Two scenes by Richard Scarry to gladden the hearts of all introverts 🙂

A chant that has me feeling toasty already...

A Thomas Hardy-esque late afternoon on the Celtic winter estuary.

"We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving, And we all have the power To make wishes come true, As long as we keep believing." ~ Louisa May Alcott The Winter Forest (1912) 🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

Two scenes by Richard Scarry to gladden the hearts of all introverts 🙂

When a poem becomes a prayer. Siegfried Sassoon (1934)

Another R.S. Thomas poem for the 1st Week of Advent.

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"You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky Frost 🎨 Claude Monet

"O passing Angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong." ~ Christina Rossetti An Angel Playing a Flageolet (1878) 🎨 Edward Burne-Jones