Monday, August 2, 2010

...things like this...




...scare me so:

Desperation Grows as Jobless Benefits End

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03unemployed.html?hp

The heartless, smug, cruel reader comments on the article are heartbreaking.

I can see myself in her. She's done everything "right". Worked, furthered her education (I haven't been able to accomplish this, though) and now she's living in her car. She has no one.

I literally shake with fear when I read this. I hope somehow she knows that at least one person is thinking of her tonight and is sending love and best wishes and some of the remaining hope I have to her.