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We are back in the season of family. After what happened on September 11th, it seems like lots of the people here in America are takin' their families more seriously. I like that. But I have always talked in these pages about takin' our families more seriously. So that's nothin' new.
I kindah missed havin' them wide-load Louisiana relatives of mine --- too loud, too wild, full of that parish juice --- makin' our lives a bit more chaotic. But it was good to not have the kids get hyper from their influence, too.
On the other hand, that meant that some of the temptation to over-indulge, in both the food and tasty alcoholic beverage areas, was taken away. I could behave more like Tanya and Moms expect a "serious married man" to behave. And that was all good, too.
I'm a little worried about Christmas this year, what with the economy around here tightening up so fast. It's just about at the point where I know more folks looking for work than folks who still have jobs. So, even though I still have my job, I just think it would not be in good taste to be fronting with what I can still get my for my loved ones when so many people are hurting. Besides, it's always a good idea to hold back and maybe put a few acorns away in case Hard Times decides to roll this way.
So, like lots of other Americans, my notion is to keep it close to home this year. Just enjoy the holidays in a more Down Home kind of way. Between Tanya's folks and mine, we'll have plenty of rounds to make anyway.
Me, I don't feel good for anybody having their life thrown into upheaval, no matter how bratty and stuck-up they were when they were riding high.
These folks got families, too. And many of them will have to return to their families, wherever they came from, shame-faced and maybe feeling a little smaller because they are "failures" now that they are out of work. For a lot of these folks, who were fresh out of college, it will be like their very first steps in life turned out to be disasters. That can't feel good, no matter how you cut it, especially during the holidays.
I figure most folks are resilient, of course. I think a lot these folks will find ways to make ends meet, and the economy won't be slow and dull forever. But the already-poor ALWAYS suffer the most during these downturns. The rich just make a little less money, the rest of us have to sharpen up our survival skills just to get by. I think that's probably why poor folk are more caring and sympathetic to the suffering of others.
So I'm hoping that your family is doing fairly well as we rush into the holidays and out of another, very strange year indeed for our world and our lives. I'm hoping you have family to be with during the holidays. Some folks don't, you know. They depend on people like you and me to maybe offer an extra place at the table. That's something Tanya and I plan to do this year...
OAKLAND, CALI - NOVEMBER 25, 2001: Thanksgiving was the usual family scene at my Mom's house in Benicia. The relatives from Louisiana weren't up this year -- which was a relief for me and Tanya, after the wedding. They are letting us rest until Christmas.
Lots of folks who moved into the area a couple years back, many of them lured by the big dot-com "boom," are starting to pack up and leave --- something that never serves to build up your confidence. San Francisco is getting hit the hardest from what I hear, but there is the inevitable fallout on this side of the Bay, too. Not a week has gone by over the last couple months when I don't see moving vans and those yellow Ryder trucks lined up on the streets. It's like the end of the semester in a college town, when you see moving trucks lined up and young folks trying to sell off what they can't take with them to make some extra money for their trips.
Some people are celebrating all this, bitter as they were about the influx of new people making bloated salaries and driving all the prices up. They say good riddance to these new folks and revel in the fact that the once arrogant dot-com yuppies are now getting their comeuppance.
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