Happy Fourth of July

Six months into the New Year we find the insurance marketplace and the economy just as challenging as we predicted. It seems many of our clients are still shedding jobs and are not seeing any indication of substantial change this year or next. Coupled with what we see on the news these days, it’s easy to feel depressed. Still, there are many positive things happening that give me encouragement. One that especially struck me.

My family attended a wedding recently. We have been good friends of the bride’s family for 25 years and watched her grow up. She and her new husband had both graduated from the Naval Academy just the week before. The wedding party and the guests were full of recent Academy graduates. The minister – who was also the father of the groom – took a few minutes during the ceremony to introduce these extraordinary young people, including the duty assignments to which they would soon be reporting. Surface warfare, aviation, submarines, Marine Corp. Looking at them filled you with a sense of optimism about the future of our country and the quality of our next generation.

In the 73 years PS&F has been in business we have seen some difficult times and conditions. I firmly believe these too shall pass. I like to think of business, like life, as a sine wave. It has its ups and downs and you learn not to live at the top or the bottom of the wave for it is ever changing. Great things are happening, even in this environment, and it’s important that we don’t overlook them.

Happy 4th of July. I hope for you, your business, and your family that the wave is trending up.

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