Change

I am working my way back to blogging more regularly, including updates of my two-year readjustment period since moving to care for my mother. She's doing fine, thanks.
It's possible that some of the things I've learned will be helpful as more and more people join me in the ranks of unemployed/uninsured. I have a few pressing chores to finish before I can get back to this blog, but I'm closer.
Meanwhile, I suggest everyone take off the rose-colored glasses and listen to The Automatic Earth. Our world is going to change. It will never be like it was. Accept it and start planning.

From today's post: "we need to see our houses as shelter, not as instruments for financial gain. If there are still people out there who don't understand that, I promise you, you will sometime during the process which will take prices down that 80% or 90%. There is no credit available. That is what a credit crisis means to us all. And our governments cannot create credit out of nothing. And even if they could, who would want to borrow? The millions of unemployed foreclosed upon 21st century Tom Joads?"

...The question is, or if you will should be: how do we keep people from freezing to death, from starving, from cholera epidemics once water systems fail. We won't do it by indebting our children and grandchildren in doomed efforts to keep a bankrupt society rolling, while we recite fairy tales of future profits from bets on horses that have long since left their stables..."

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