they were so late announcing the recession...

things are sooo bleak for so many families this year. {sighing}....with all the homes burned down from wild fires, and so many homes snatched away from even the "first-time" home owners until, you almost wonder is their anybody with a crust of bread left to eat at their own table?

when the middle-class starts to feel gloom closing in on them, wealthy giants are begging for greenbacks, while banks are lacking in checks, chips and coinage, not to mention the mansion owners see their abodes wiped out by fire, you gotta know you don't need the government to tell you that all this heaviness-of-heart is a result of some serious depression crawling into our villas.

we can blame it on the weather, war, fire-starters, wall street, and the such, but still our wallets refuse to be super-sized as it's totally gobbling slim-fast on the pronto. the lose of jobs and the lack of shoppers for anything other than another job is woeful enough for me to see depression is so close we are fully shadowed by it by now.

I'm a person who once worked in a nursing home, and found that the elderly people I took care of, which lived through the depression, were some of the most "tuck-stuff-away" people ever. when we would change their beds we would have to check the corners of their sheets for hidden change, and check the corner of their gowns which also would have more dollars tied into a knot there. when they were helped to the toilet they would only tear one single square of tissue to wipe with, and we'd constantly have to tell them to pull more. when we would clean out their bedside stands we would find milk cartons, empty tissue rolls, plastic spoons and so on. these survivors kept EVERYTHING.

I think we are all having to do it the way history said those who survived the depression did which is: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or DO WITHOUT.

{stopping a moment to think}......just wondering how many of us will be just like them in about three more months, or maybe when we finally get old.

tell me what you think about depression after reading this...really I wanna know.