lucky?

You may want to stop right here. Close this site and not call me. It seems as though we're the "black cloud of ill fortune" lately. While all has been good with us, those around us are having no end of difficulties. We have friends, family and acquaintances experiencing bankruptcy, famiy deaths (of those under 45yo), grave childhood illnesses and genreal despair. While we do have one acquaintance celebrating the birth of a long-anticipated son and namesake (woohoo!), many more are having horrid fortune.

And why?

Are these "bad people"? No. Are these families any more "deserving" of the ill turns of fate? No. Just bad luck? Likely. It's not as if the patriarch was a daredevil motorcycle jumper (a la Evil Kneivel) and is now in a body cast because of it. Or that the matriarch was doing crack and meth and is now deathly ill. No, all the families were just as normal as the rest of us...just going about their usual lives when the various tragedies befell them. They don't all live within the range of a nuclear power plant or on adjoining toxically over-fertilized (and thus bad for the health and welfare) factor farms. The only link betwixt them is their association with us.

So....... still reading? Run for the hills lest our black cloud reach out and envelope you too. :o( It's been such a worthless feeling to see our friends and family suffering so and not be able to do anything. Or even know what to say (as if anything that we say is going to make any of this better, much less "all better").

If good things are going on in your lives, let us know? We're pretty short on the list of "good things happening to good people" these days..