Pie in the sky.....

"On the good ship Lollipop......."
I don’t remember the Great Depression. It was winding down when I was born in 1937, but I’ve heard stories all my life...how people lost their jobs, their homes...their dignity. One of the things that I learned from listening to my elders is that dignity is over-rated...food on the table, a warm fire ‘n a safe place to sleep...those are important...’n people who care about you, people to care about...that’s what gives life its meaning.... makes everything worthwhile...
Pie in the sky signifies hope....Hope is important when material things get taken away...especially when losing those things was no fault of your own....
T’day, while the blossoms still cling to the vine, I’m reminded of the stories I heard as a child...of families ‘on the road’ searching for a job, any job, something to put a roof over their heads ‘n food on a table....
The economy is in a meltddown mode, people are losing their jobs, their homes...it’s possible that we’re facing a worldwide depression that could rival that of the ‘thirties...Maybe we’ll learn just how much dignity there is standing in a bread line or waiting for a cup of soup.
Maybe we’ll get some modern ‘Bluebird of happiness’ singing about ‘pennies from Heaven’ and hou you can’t keep a good man down....especially if you look on the sunny side of the street....
‘Course, we may just find out that we really are a ‘nation of whiners’...’n we could find out that people t’day are just as tough as people were way back then...that when the going gets tough, the tough’ll get going...the question is: Where’n hell are we going?