I was watching the movie “Seabiscuit” this past Saturday night, and if you have never seen this movie… go rent it.  It is a great story of several people, in the depression era,  who end up coming together because of a horse named Seabiscuit, and surviving those very, very difficult times. The movie has sections with narration and images from the 1930′s, showing what people suffered through to make ends meet. The message of the movie is “You don’t throw a whole life away, just ’cause it’s banged up a  little”.

As it did the first time I saw the movie, some of the images really hit directly in my heart.  Images of children sleeping on cots, in cars, outdoors, with no family around and older children (12 years) doing what it takes to survive.  I find anything that has kids suffering and in pain, I can easily relate to and compare to my own children. It is painful to be reminded of what people went through back then and how lucky we are today.

That was this past weekend; the same time as Hurricane Ike was hitting the Southern States, gas prices here in Nova Scotia and Canada went going up again (even though oil prices were down, I’m still trying to figure out that formula…hmm), and then the big news in the States early this week with regards to Lehman Brothers, AIG and the stock markets in the US & Canada.

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