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Phil Cubeta
Bryn Mawr, PA
Phil Cubeta, Morals Tutor to America's Wealthiest Families
Interests: Helping Flourishing Families own, rule, and save the world
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Their situation, detailed in the post below, remains dire. If you are able to help via zelle, here is the appropriate email: [email protected] Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2021 at Gift Hub
Long term readers know Debbie and Gerry Gleason who were frequent commenters here. They have fallen on hard times. If you are moved to help, the information is below. At the least, please say whatever prayer or best wishes come... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2021 at Gift Hub
Audrey in her jeans, and Tutor in his priest pants are sitting cross-legged on the stone floor of her bedroom in The Castle making hearts from red construction paper. Audrey is signing in magic marker with a big A and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2020 at Gift Hub
I asked Tutor why he always speaks in riddles. Why not come right out and say it? He told he me he muddies the waters to make them seem deeper. If the waters ever cleared, we would each see our... Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2020 at Gift Hub
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The Happy Tutor's range of cultural reference vastly exceeds my own. "Phil," he said, tossing his copy of The Bacchae so it rang off the inner wall of our Dumpster at the Intersection of Wealth and Bondage. "Dionysus is the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2020 at Gift Hub
With the commodification of financial services, the rise of robo-advisors, and resulting fee compression, the market for Advice for Multi-Generationally Wealthy Families is moving the Wisdom, Virtue and Holiness. There is currently a market imbalance with more wisdom, virtue and... Continue reading
Posted Nov 14, 2019 at Gift Hub
An angora cat costing $800 with genes going back to the cats kept by Pharaohs and worshiped as gods, given the pervasive animist propaganda at that time. She does not walk; she prances, head erect as if the Castle were... Continue reading
Posted Nov 14, 2019 at Gift Hub
Some killjoy servants to wealth, who got no candy on Halloween, and didn’t give out any either, private messaged me to ask if Audrey got honored for giving back what she had pillaged from the downtrodden waitstaff. Honestly, she did... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2019 at Gift Hub
Audrey, the world’s wealthiest heir, she who will own, rule, and save the world, went as Joan of Arc last year. She kept the sword and went this year as a Pirate extorting treats from the minimum wage wait staff... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2019 at Gift Hub
Per The Economist, the lifetime opportunity cost of an Oxbridge arts degree, as opposed to an Oxbridge Econ degree, is 500,000 pounds Sterling. In The Happy Tutor's case, he computes his own forgone earnings since the Renaissance at well over... Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2019 at Gift Hub
Dearest Jack (not your real name, nor your actual gender of choice, nor actually a friend of mine since the work we do is both beyond reproach and highly confidential), As a Fellow Oxonion (not your real College) thought you... Continue reading
Posted Aug 18, 2019 at Gift Hub
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An amphitheater carved into mountain rock, facing the sea, bordered by wild forests; at the focal point an altar on which a trembling goat is sacrificed, "Send her back," or "Cut its throat," or "give us Barabbas," it really doesn't... Continue reading
Posted Aug 16, 2019 at Gift Hub
Yes, God, canvassed Wealth Bondage and raised up a Champion. Barabbas was long gone.
Toggle Commented Aug 16, 2019 on The Language of the Gate at Gift Hub
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In his remarkable 1983 book, The Gift: On the Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde suggests we have three languages to discuss property, the gift, giftedness, and poetics. The language of the hearth: Here a mother sings lullabies to an... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2019 at Gift Hub
She can be so annoying. Last night Tutor told her not to pour a full bottle of Sprite into the gas tank of Seal Team Seven’s motor launch, after it brought her back to the Castle after Trick or Treating.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2018 at Gift Hub
Generally, I would say yes, but she wants to go dressed in a blue blazer, as Master Jack, offering moral advice to the kids in the neighboring castles. "Be good and never do wrong and give me some candy" is... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2018 at Gift Hub
I take my science directly from my immediate superior. When and if sea level rises, she will inform me of any action I might need to take.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/russalanprince/2018/10/17/how-the-heirs-of-the-super-rich-become-global-stewards/amp/ Own, Rule, Save. Tutor is doing his best with Audrey, but she is now confined to her room for using Master Jack’s paisely suspenders as a massive slingshot to fire cantaloupes at a passing steamer. Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2018 at Gift Hub
Controlled violence patrols the perimeter of the walled city, protecting hearth and altar, and protecting the trade routes. Among the merchants and thieves goes a god in disguise, asking all, "What is wealth?" He is Hermes the trickster, god of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2018 at Gift Hub
Tutor has noticed what other's have not. What puzzles Master Jack, makes perfect sense to Tutor. In all the market turbulence, Big Momma, with collars and straddles, and options, increased her share of the world's wealth from 51% to 72%,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2018 at Gift Hub
When Audrey and her Tutor have serious work to do, in owning and saving the world, they retreat to her enormous wooden toybox, and sit facing each other soles pressed to soles, peddling as they ruminate. Audrey’s coverlet is pulled... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2018 at Gift Hub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3AsBEK4&feature=youtu.be Yes, of course, conversations are dying as the neurochemistry of the social is studied and manipulated by Silicon Valley. Yes, Facebook or Twitter could be optimized for humanity, built around love rather than money. But why would they do... Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2018 at Gift Hub
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You might wonder what Audrey got from Tutor for Christmas. Hard when he only makes $7 a day plus room and board, and needs most of it for beer, to get something meaningful for the girl who will inherit the... Continue reading
Posted Dec 29, 2017 at Gift Hub
Yet ideas can be true, although men die: For we have seen a myriad faces Ecstatic from one lie. Auden, "Sonnets from China" Among Master Jack's tribe there is a proverb, oft told, to justify Premium Services from Trusted Advisors,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2017 at Gift Hub
Audrey is flipping to D in the index of her Family History, provided, with gilt pages, by Master Jack, as a Value Add from the Private Bank of Wealth Bondage. “Where is Dad?” Awkward silences. She throws the book at... Continue reading
Posted Nov 26, 2017 at Gift Hub