When one cannot afford medications, even when one pays for very expensive private health insurance, it is a sign of depression. (I know I'm depressed!)
When one cannot afford the gas to propel one to work... yet another sign. (Depression.) (Large parts of the country do not have "rapid transit". The option only exists in some large cities, and not all.)
When clipping coupons becomes an important part of each day... we are facing depression.
When workers start traveling state to state (albeit via internet) looking for work, as many of my colleagues do, as I do... we are in fact in a "depression."
When friends, in their late 50's talk about re-inventing themselves, finding another line of work and there is nothing out there... and finally give up because it is just the wrong time for a "start-up" and no one wants to hire anyone over 40, experience be damned...
Regardless of upswings in employment elsewhere, when 30% of one's neighbors are out of work or under-employed, collectively we are struggling through another "Great Depression."
Have you seen the price of lettuce?
When oil companies post record breaking profits as the rest of the country suffers... well, you know.
Let's add natural disaster to the mix. How can one go to work when "work" has blown away?
I'm growing my own basil. It is so much cheaper.
On the other hand, spring is springing.
Politics be damned, we will not be beaten down.
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| Unbelievable Ice Plant |
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| A Berry Flower |
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| I'd like to call this a river, but it is "The Wash." Half a mile from home. |
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