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SLOW MOTION

Angels & American Flags
Rockefeller Center, December 2001

    
I feel like the world is slowly collapsing around us as we sit and watch, helpless to stop it.  We are waiting for the new President.  We’re waiting for Wall Street to start acting rationally again.  We’re waiting for banks [...]

A Good Time To Be Poor

Photo by Ellen Blanchette:  Cypress and Lily Pond
Chanticleer Gardens, Wayne PA, May 15, 2008
 
Reading about how the financial crisis keeps spreading ever outward, into the far reaches of the globe, makes me feel sort of lucky to be poor right now.  While thousands of people (or is it millions?) worry over the loss of everything, their homes, [...]