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{weblog_name} - The `D-Word’
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People keep using that `D-Word’ nowadays – Depression. I don’t mean the mental or emotional state of anguish and dejection – let’s face it, that’s an ongoing saga for our times, regardless of the Dow – but Depression as in, “Let’s ride the rails, get out our harmonicas and live in hobo jungles, with sepia Dorothea Lange images, `Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?’” kind of Depression. As a child of Great Depression-era kids, I’m not sure what to make of that word’s current usage. How many times have I heard the stories about how my mother didn’t have soles in her shoes because times were tough back then? Or that my dad had to quit high school and joined the Merchant Marine to make ends meet for his family? Or that my grandparents needed to leave New York… read more

You put online that your mother has been wrong?  Shanda? 

Interesting that “Depression” connotes something so horrible.  It is really a euphemism.  They could have called it a “canyon” if they really wanted it to sound bad.