These days we're facing global economic circumstances that aren't terribly reassuring, as well as more personal financial concerns -- aging parents, college expenses for those of us who still have kids in school, and the precariousness of our own careers as we get older.
Most of us have forgotten the hunger and precariousness the pilgrims knew, though many Americans still know it all too well.
Both the precariousness of frontier life, however, and the rapidly expanding economy weakened the prevailing Calvinistic belief in a predestined future and encouraged the emergence of inventiveness, a sense of living still in the "New World experiment," and adoption of the ideal of "making good".
However, it does not erase the precariousness of the low-wage workplace.
Its great subject, however, is easy to miss: the permanent precariousness of the middle classes in New York.
The results do, however, tell an interesting story about the precariousness of life as a writer.
I think this was a necessary early step, though here I have to say many Christians still have no sense of the Jewish experience with respect to the precariousness and vulnerability of being a Jew -- this feeling that Jewish identity hangs in the balance and each generation doesn't know whether it will be the last, something John Paul understood well.
Both groups, however, are largely unhappy with the pay and precariousness of their jobs.
(Lamar still honors his foundational interest: uncovering black people in poses of grandeur and of precariousness. The video for "ELEMENT". brings to life photographs of the legendary Harlem photographer Gordon Parks).
And yet DACA recipients were also acutely aware of the precariousness of their temporary legal status.
