35,000 new layoffs on a cold January Monday

Caterpillar, Home Depot and Sprint announced new job cuts this AM.  Unannounced cuts are surely also happening.  It is a grim time for american workers.  All employer categories public and private seem to be shedding jobs at ever increasing rates.  For almost all of us unemployed finding a job is harder than the frozen New England ground.  A philosopher was once commanded by his king to make one statement true for all times, all places, all mankind.  Failure to satisfy his king was death to him.  The philosopher said, "this too shall pass".  Good times, bad times, health, illness, success, failure, life itself.  When times are wonderful and life seems very good it is a cautionary statement, be humble and prepare.  When times are difficult and life seems very bad and likely to get worse, take comfort in change and do whatever you can to make that change happen.   Life is a marathon.  Sometime the wind is at your back, the road runs down hill, It is easy.  Sometimes the air is quiet, the path is level and straight, for a long way forward the way seems steady and predictable.  Sometimes the path twists and turns steeply uphill, the wind blows hard in our faces, we cannot seem beyonnd the next turn, the way just ahead is not visible.  Whatever part of the run we are on this stretch too shall pass.