The entire world seems to be in a falling-apart mode right now…despite the news of the day, today, that the stock market has rallied dramatically. My work life, this semester, has been quite emotionally exhausting. The economy is one big gut-check experience after another. And it’s beyond belief that Sarah Palin is using rhetoric so inflammatory that it’s feeling like an old-time lynch mob is about to form.

Now, it the midst of all the election, economic and work frenzy, comes word that I need to head back to the Midwest for Dad’s funeral.

Soundtrack Suggestion 

It don’t come easy,
You know it don’t come easy.
It don’t come easy,
You know it don’t come easy…

(“It Don’t Come Easy– Ringo Starr)