This Recession

After decades of positive thinking and abundance awareness and every other expansive, thing we can think of, it appears the American psyche has turned toward fear and scarcity.

But I say, “Isn’t it so positive that you don’t feel compelled to buy everything you see?”

Recent articles have noted there are fewer cars on the road. Driving from Venice to Hollywood today, at rush hour, took about forty minutes instead of fifty-five. That’s ten-years-ago speed.

Contraction can be lovely. People need to pull in, clean out their closets, sell their useful items they do not use on Ebay, think about eating healthy food at home and keeping the lights turned out.

I bet it makes people more thoughtful and closer to their mates, families, friends and neighbors.

A hard rain is falling. Of course, because of climate change, it is falling at higher latitudes. Look out for each other.