I think my wife and I will be taking a break for a week or two.
Except for The Laugh out Loud cat-toons which my wife looks forward too EVERY Sunday.
I think we need to put some distance from us and politics and well news in general. my wife is showing signs of depression though she may not realize it yet.
Some of you may feel we are running but have had a bad year.
Yes my wife's jury duty ended at the beginning of the year but that 18 month process really shook her belief in her fellow man to begin with.
I had two grandmother's pass away as well as a step grandmother.
we lost 2 cats
My mother had a bad issue--thought it was a stroke but she hit her head on the faust of the tub and was on blood thinners... ended up having bleeding on the brain and well ended up staying in ICU (fully alerted) for a week.
Than my brother almost died. He is home now and making a slow recovery but it will be a full one.
I think all of this has overwhelmed my wife who look at the constitution as her bible and the bill of rights as her 10 commandments.
Yes, she knows the founding fathers where flawed but they did aspire to something noble when creating this country that she sees being destroyed with Corporate greed, destruction of the middle class, the fear-mongering patriot act and just the whole events since Zimmerman, Ferguson, NY...
She needs time to heal... she is my liberal thought process. I grew up in a republican home and she has shown me a lot. I am not nearly as liberal as she but I learned from her.
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I wish your wife would post for herself sometime though. When she feels up to it.
Turn off all the media for the rest of the year. Seriously, it's only 3 weeks!
When you return, everything will be right where you left it, but the change will be in you. Hopefully, your perspective will have improved, along with your mood and health.
You've both had a lot of losses in a short time, and you need to give yourselves a break.
I have followed them closely. I appreciate your voice and your wife's.
We all need a rest sometimes from the violence that is being done to our democracy, and to us.
We will miss you, but I totally understand.
Excellent decision. Hope you have local places to walk and a good local library (for non political stuff, smile), and a few local holiday concerts. I have been to one and anticipate another. Music is great therapy. You have been thru a lot. Hang close together. Sending hugs.
