Living In The Present Depression

Loggers working next to our property

I think we are presently living in a depression. It seems like we are living in bad times. Are we? Then again didn't people all through time think they were living in bad times? Many thought it was the end of the world. If it seems that way maybe it is because  the news is always gruesome. Just look around and tell me what you see. Look at how much destruction people have caused just in this country alone. Not only have they destroyed the trees, plants, animals, the birds, the fish, the land, the water, but people too - yes, look at what was done to the ancestors of our own Native Americans. Is that the nature of people? It happens world wide every day.

It seems to me that all people care about is having things fast and easy. They all want everything done now and done in the easiest way possible. That is why our earth is being destroyed. People have to get everywhere the fastest way possible. There are the people who work in factories building the items we purchase. They are made to work as fast as possible. Maybe that is why nothing lasts or is not even working when you purchase it.

Cookbooks

I can't get over how proud so many women are of the fact that they do not know how to cook. How could you even say that? My son could cook when he was a child. All you have to be able to do is to read a recipe! I receive a newsletter from a woman who is supposed to be a "affiliate marketing expert" and makes an extraordinary amount of money. She wrote about not knowing how to cook and how she ruined everything she tried. The fact is that if she wasn't so rich she would have had to eat the food that was burnt or not good. She would have and so would have learned as she went along how to improve her cooking skills. Until one day she would be considered a good cook.

My first husband always considered it a status symbol to say that the best thing I could make was reservations. I always resented that remark as I made many good dishes and was improving. Now the man I am married to would rather eat at home any day than to eat in a restaurant. We have found that whatever we order I could always do it better. Which I do. I can't remember the last meal I had in a restaurant. 

Copyright © 2005 Kathleen G. Lupole

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