One of the economic writers I read is Viatliy Katsenelson. He’s a value investor. He spoke on occasion at the investment conference I hosted in Vancouver a decade ago.

One thing I’ve found endearing is Vitaliy’s emails, he always features his own father’s paintings. Today, in an homage of sorts, I’m going to feature some of my mother’s work.

Mimi Wiggin is also a painter.

Here Mimi is sketching out a Blue Heron landing.

“I probably sound like a broken record by now,” Mimi writes, echoing our own sentiment talking about the demise of the dollar. The biggest difference is her “fascination with the great blue herons” is very different from our own fascination with economics. Mrs. Wiggin:

“I have put the herons in my newsletters before, both pictures and paintings and here I go again. I have four nesting sites I like to check on each spring to see if the herons have returned, how many new nests and eventually how many chicks.”

The bird landed. The painting is finished. You can find Mimi’s work at: www.mimiwiggin.com/.

So, you might be wondering what all of this has to do with our focus on the banking crisis and the demise of the dollar?

Simple answer. Simple thought. Simple analogy. For the heron in the painting to land on a small branch, in the wind, everything has to go just right. It’s a big bird. The branch is wavering.

April 5 looks like a good week.

We’ll have to see if the branch bends or breaks. Maybe the bird just flies off to another tree.

So it goes,

Addison Wiggin
The Wiggin Sessions

P.S. Apologies for the analogy today. It seemed appropriate. And if you want to check out Mimi’s work, please do so.