Today carried the essence of deprivation and ill harmonic gestures. The girls came in the house screaming because they were tired and hungry and well face it 6:30 am is nothing to be laughing about for them. I got them some breakfast and we ate redneck style curled up on the couch. We turned on the cartoons and the three little piggies’s where crying because the big bad wolf was blowing down their house. A while later I turned the news on- the six miners are still trapped, the families are trying to stay positive, yet shed tears of the possible realities. Fires on the west coast are spreading rapidly and families have to evacuate their homes. Then I see the Government wants to tax bottled water. A life-sustaining product, and now they want to make it all the more expensive. The average American family is getting to the point that Wal-Mart is even to expensive because the cost of living goes up more then the paycheck allots for. Gas is starting to go up, meat is on the increase, dairy is going up and guess what? Yes, taxes are next. My youngest son came in and said Mom, with tears in his eyes, I think I have to go in the Army. I looked at him and asked him why? He told me, I couldn’t find a job that pays more than minimum wage. For him to take a job say in Rochester or Buffalo at that wage would take his whole paycheck just in gas. Later on there was a late breaking story three suicide bombings in Iraq, 175 dead and 200+ injured. Then Altemio Sanchez was getting his sentence today as he sits crying in the courtroom, not because he killed and raped all those women, but because he was caught. My point to all this is, I felt this urge to want to do something to change all the hardship and yet at the same time all I could do was feel invisible and helpless. America is having a hard time trusting our leaders and those that are coming forth to take on the challenge are being scrutinized and with just cause, I might add. There’s a driving force within me somewhere, I’m not sure as to what it’s about, but I will trust the divine to lead me and help me understand why this is so important to me. ~Ve