"It's the worst economy since the depression," a teenager told me the other day, as he rummaged through his jean pockets trying to find a few extra coins so he could be a value hamburger off the menu meal.
"You know that food will kill you eventually," I kidded him.
He said, "I know, but you tell me what else I can eat with a buck?"
Yeah, that's definitely a problem.
Somebody across from me at the gas pumps told me she had filled the tank twice in one week, and was speculating that the owners of the gas stations are diluting the fuel to make more money.
Yes, there is so much confusion, not just with our legislature and every agency in the land, but with the kids who inherit this great big boondoogle.
It's not just the children either, grandparents are taking life hard as social security was burned up in war and political misappropriation.
Confusion and fear
Nobody knows if their house they may have worked all their life to buy and pay off will be worth anything once they retire.
"Oh it can't last that long," somebody of a different ilk explained to me the other day.
"Why not," I asked?
She didn't have a response, and her uncertainty made me realize people are just trying to make themselves feel better as they watch the disaster around them.
Life has changed, the government can't keep up, the information is too much for the average person trying to raise a family, and family means something different too.
I told somebody that I had three mothers and three fathers, and a father I didn't know.
How could that be? It sounds like a trick question, but we have not evolved in our awareness that great change took place and we missed it.
I was adopted at 6 weeks old by my mother and father as I knew them. They stayed married until I was ten, then both remarried, giving me an extra mother and father.
When I turned 18 I had to know my roots so I quickly found my biological mother who gave birth to me.
Now, I had three mothers, two fathers. Yes, you figured it, my natural mother got remarried, so there is the final father.
But if you were to say this thirty or forty years ago, you would have been blashphemous or deluded.
Families have changed and we need to change with the families. We could start with getting the male "birth control" on the market allowing men to feel more in control over their bodies.
With men, fathers, in jail, not paying support or not being able to pay support, the dynamic must change.
As women we have made it pretty clear what we want in the way of control of our bodies, our children, and the more we bring women into the chambers once only seating men, white men with property, we see a profound change in our culture.
The influence of women in society
The movements we saw last century, those without property or power were nothing but forced to act or be run over by a patriarchal system using religious materials as justification in many cases.
Now, we see many more women who are making choices their forebearers would not have done.
Graveyards are full of women who died in childbirth, there were no pink ribbons back then, and the rule of thumb was to keep the father alive so he could work the land, fight the wars, and tame the country, all along in battle; never in harmony.
Now women are still recieving hysterectomies in great numbers all in the name of cancer and the relief of night sweats. Men may have only recently discovered that they have a high cancer risk in prostrate cancer, but that is not as significant as the breast, ovarian, and cysts which have been the reasons for taking out what doesn't need to be there?
Our country needs women, women in charge. They need the experience a woman provides in knowing children, food, and a sense of being part of creation.
The founding mothers
This years elections are going to bring about much change, and certainly we will see that sort of push in Washington, other than to cram a horse pill sized healthcare reform pill or bill down our throats.
It's time to think, and we will try and bring as much good, provocative and thoughtful information as we can to make our voting choices, just that choices.
We will be sold many reasons as to why tax increases will be fired at us like shrapnel, and we need to be prepared to understand where we can actually help, and where the responsibility falls in lack of oversight by people in their respective communities.
It's time to pull together, but I must say I see people are pulling apart. Fear our favorite friend.
What fear is not is a motivator, so parent's it's not always necessary to frighten to teach.
What counteracts fear is education. Educate yourselves, there are many incredibly intelligent, funny, daring and determined sites out here in the land of the internet and still hiding out in our newspapers.
And I will be adding posts where you can link up with newsletters which let you know what is going on. It's going to be some year, a defining year, as to how we handle it.
Were we unprepared for this? No bottled water and canned goods?
Yes, we didn't see this coming a long way off...
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